Hi. I want to make backup a partition and I want to compress the data. I'm worried about the possibility of the compressed files being damaged when I try to restore then. I've read that in compressed tarball you cannot recover any data after a single damaged bit. I'm looking for tools like rar that creates extra recovery files. What options are available? What I've found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_archive_formats#Comparison and available in the repositories are DAR and rar. Lzip also has a recovery utility called Lziprecover. Parchive is another related utility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive I haven't used any of these except rar and I don't know if the have some kind of problems. And I don't know how other compression tools like gzip and bzip behave in case of file damage. I have used dd + tar.gz previously to make backups but I'm not sure if it is a good option anymore. Any hints? Thanks in advance. Greetings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org