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One advantage of WinRAR over 7-Zip is the option to add recovery data and data parity recovery files. This can of course be accomplished on any file using PAR2
by LinuxBender 3y ago
One advantage of WinRAR over 7-Zip is the option to add recovery data and data parity recovery files. This can of course be accomplished on any file using PAR2 but it saved a step which some people liked. Not everyone needs this option. I create PAR files when I back up important archives to multiple external drives. par2cmdline [1] is in some Linux repositories.
[1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline [In need of a new maintainer]
- bandergirl 3y agoI may be wrong, but rar files appear to be recoverable when the download has not finished, but last time I tried I could not do anything with a partial 7z archive.
- MikusR 3y agoMultiPar is the continuation for Windows https://github.com/Yutaka-Sawada/MultiPar https://github.com/Yutaka-Sawada/MultiPar And this for Linux https://github.com/animetosho/par2cmdline-turbo https://github.com/animetosho/par2cmdline-turbo