Archiving Data Permanently

[Brian Gaynor]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 09:20 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> If you configure RAR properly it will create a set of files that can be 
> used to rebuild the archive.  You can set the amount of rebuild files so 
> if you have a set of files that are corrupted, you can do a repair.
> 
> It can split large files into more manageable parts or smaller sizes if 
> there is a corrupted DVD where you lose part of the DVD, you can still 
> recover all of the data.
> 
> You could make a tar.gz image of your data and then rar the data into 
> smaller files to be saved.  Many options abound.
> 
> RAR is not free but shareware http://www.rarlab.com/

There is also an RPM available from http://freshrpms.net that plays nice
with file roller. Not sure what the license issues (if any) are though. 

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Brian Gaynor
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