Brian K. White wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 15:01:50 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Tuesday, 2009-09-15 at 14:57 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 15 September 2009 14:22:50 Carlos E. R. wrote:
As for tools designed to embed data to assist in recovering from or at least minimizing loss of data due to media errors, including in concert with compression: In the free world right off the top of my head, dar and xar. And dar just uses parchive which you could use seperately with something else too. And any of the official backup programs (amanda, zmanda, bru, bacula, arkeia, ...?)
I wonder why not on free software.
Amanda and Bacula are free software the last time I checked.
And they have those features we are refering to, like automatic error detection and recovery?
Based on my read of Brain's mail, which you have quoted twice: Yes.
If you'd like to read the relevant parts of Brain's mail, it is (still) quoted above.
... But I can't find anything really that adds in ECC data except parchive.
Here's another. http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/rsbep.html It compiled effortlessly but I haven't tested it yet. I came across a few references to a standalone util called simply "ecc" which seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. I can't tell yet if it was because of patent issues or simply something else made it obsolete. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org