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RAR is still the only format that has PAR2 (?) recovery records trivially available. So it's still the best for long-term archiving.
by exmadscientist 5y ago
RAR is still the only format that has PAR2 (?) recovery records trivially available. So it's still the best for long-term archiving.
- ihateolives 5y agoYeah, I don't know why this is never mentioned in comparisons. This is nice to have feature. I wouldn't care at all about speed for long term archiving, because it's one time occurrence, but I would care whether archive format has extra safety feature against bit rot.
- adrian_b 5y agoPAR2 can be easily used with any other archive format and any compression algorithm. For example I am using it with a pax archive format (which unlike tar handles correctly all file metadata, e.g. extended attributes) and with lrzip compression (better for large files, e.g. movies, which do not compress well with more usual algorithms). I assume that WINRAR may have a simpler interface for inexperienced users, but a knowledgeable user can easily write a pair of simple scripts with all the command-line options needed to combine PAR2 with any archive file format and any compression algorithm and arrange them to be invoked e.g. by right-clicking on a directory or on an archive file.
- nix23 5y ago>So it's still the best for long-term archiving. No it's not, lzip is it and war, as written by archive.org and the European-IT-department