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I use to use par like 20 years ago, it was fairly popular in certain warez ftp communities back when you were still downloading on modems. What are people usin
by LimaBearz 6y ago
I use to use par like 20 years ago, it was fairly popular in certain warez ftp communities back when you were still downloading on modems.
What are people using it for these days?
- Erlich_Bachman 6y agoProtection against bitrot and other data corruption in backups and other storage of important information that is too expensive to get corrupted.
- adrian_b 6y agoYes, I also use it precisely for this in all my backups.
- brnt 6y agoProtect archival data like pictures and music from bitrot. At minimum, I'll know about it, even though some filesystems now have checksumming to help with that.
- Fnoord 6y agoMy experience is the scene used SFV (which is CRC32 and ptovides no redundancy) and Usenet used PAR(2). Together with a fill server (block account of X TB), it aids against bitrot.