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If the point is being able to access some files even if the whole archive isn’t uploaded, why not create 100 separate archives each with a partial set of files?
by stouset 2y ago
If the point is being able to access some files even if the whole archive isn’t uploaded, why not create 100 separate archives each with a partial set of files?
Or use a protocol that supports resume of partial transmits.
- rawling 2y agoPresumably it compresses better if it's all one archive?
- ZoomZoomZoom 2y agoThis carries the information that all those files are a pack in an inseparable and immutable way, contrary to encoding that in the archive's name or via some parallel channel.
- thrdbndndn 2y agoBecause sometimes your files are very large it's not easy to create separate archives with (roughly) even size. A single video can easily be over 20GB, for example.