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Just what I was going to ask about. I thought WinRAR had the option to include parity checks / redundancy within the data. BTW, is there a current... "turnkey
by pasbesoin 11y ago
Just what I was going to ask about. I thought WinRAR had the option to include parity checks / redundancy within the data.
BTW, is there a current... "turnkey" (simple, "clicky"), I guess, *NIX solution for doing that within an archive?
- jakobdabo 11y agoThere is this par2cmdline[1] tool which is (as the name suggests) a console program "for creating and using PAR2[2] files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary". GPar2[3] (alpha) is a simple GTK+ GUI for it. [1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive [3] - https://github.com/Parchive/gpar2 https://github.com/Parchive/gpar2
- pgeorgi 11y agoIf you want to build something like that, http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/ras-1.03.tar.gz http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/ras-1.03.tar.gz can provide the redundancy support.