Archiving Data Permanently

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

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