24 Jul
2018
24 Jul
'18
10:55 a.m.
On 7/23/18 12:00 PM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote:
Probably a good idea to use something like RAR with
parity. I know I
have downloaded some multi-segment binaries in RAR format from usenet
with several missing segments and as long as I had the parity file
set it could successfully recover the entire archive.
I too have had good luck with
RAR files and their (optional) accompany
PAR files. The key word being "optional" as in not there by default.
I think some other archive formats also have (optional) built in redundancy.
I've also heard some noise that some archive file formats are
particularly susceptible to corruption and can't be recovered. So I do
think it's very important to carefully pick the archive format and options.
--
Grant. . . .
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