has anyone ever used Iomega Rev as backup media? how good is that?
2018-07-23 23:11 GMT+02:00 Ali via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>: >> Probably a good idea to use something like RAR with parity. I know I >> have >> downloaded some multi-segment binaries in RAR format from usenet with >> several missing segments and as long as I had the parity file set it >> could >> successfully recover the entire archive. > > Parity will only take you so far. It is the same as RAID - you can only > tolerate so many disk failures before the whole thing collapses like a house > of cards. It works well w/ UseNet because usually the errors are small > compared to the data set. However, if you were missing say three RAR files > out of six then one PAR file is not going to save you. > > -Ali >
