Archiving Data Permanently
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Aug 17 15:20:45 UTC 2005
Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:53, Robin Laing wrote:
>
>>Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>I'm wondering if people could give me suggestion about the most
>>>economical ways to archive data more permanently.
>>>
>>Having done some stuff with RAR files, I would be tempted to make
>>archives on DVD by using RAR files. As these can be rebuilt if planned
>>properly.
>>
>
>
> What is the advantage of RAR over the traditional gzip or bzip2 ? Would you
> care to elaborate? Any website / pointer ? Putting 'rar' in google I get
> mostly winRAR stuffs.
>
> Thanks.
> RDB
>
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/
More
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR
http://schmidt.devlib.org/file-formats/rar-archive-file-format.html
Download a beta.
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/RAR_for_Linux/1053350629/2
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Robin Laing
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