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Recoverable File Archiving with Free Software?

Posted by Cliff on from the redundancy-for-your-files dept.

Viqsi asks: "Back in my Win32 days, I was a very frequent user of RAR archives. I've had them get hit by partial hardware failures and still be recoverable, so I've always liked them, but they're completely non-Free, and the mini-RMS in my brain tells me this could be a problem for long-term archival. The closest free equivalent I can find is .tar.bz2, and while bzip2 has some recovery ability, tar is (as far as I have ever been able to tell) incapable of recovering anything past the damaged point, which is unacceptable for my purposes. I've recently had to pick up a copy of RAR for Linux to dig into one of those old archives, so this question's come back up for me again, and I still haven't found anything. Does anyone know of a file archive type that can recover from this kind of damage?"

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  1. Re:Par2 works great by Stubtify · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use Usenet Server its like $13 a month for unlimited 3Mbit downloads, has great retention and I've done 50+gigs in a month and never heard a peep from them.