On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 03:46:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 12/22/2011 7:30 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
RAR (and some others) supports "recovery records" and
"recovery volumes"
(redundant data). The cool thing about them is that with a
recovery record of
10%, ANY 10% of the archive's blocks may be lost and the
entire archive can be
recovered. It was a life-saver back in the days of floppies.
I also worried about not having the right uncompressor when I
needed it.
Easily mitigated by putting decompression software on the same
media, or by creating self-extracting archives. Then you only
need to worry about having the right platform/architecture :)
I've burned about 100 DVDs back when hard drives were in the 10s
and 100s of GBs. Another useful trick was storing a full catalog
(file listings) of all past burned DVDs on each disc.
