Lziprecover 1.26-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.26-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.26-rc2.tar.gz
The sha256sums are:
e9b465047af3f5b9527a8ec3ecb044f698962294e886b37419e23fbb3d7248f7
lziprecover-1.26-rc2.tar.lz
50560ac63e04033f3907c3dd1bf6679306f507ef32adee3239b4d364f976cd07
lziprecover-1.26-rc2.tar.gz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip
compressed data format (.lz). Lziprecover also provides Forward Error
Correction files (.fec) that can be used to repair any kind of file, not
only lzip files. A fec file can be used as recovery record for a tar.lz archive.
GNU ddrescue[1] provides data recovery capabilities which nicely complement
those of lziprecover. If the cause of file corruption is a damaged medium,
the combination GNU ddrescue + lziprecover is the recommended option for
recovering data from damaged files.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html
Changes in this version:
* The new option '--append=<file>', which appends the contents of <file>
as trailing data to another file(s) in a safe way, has been added.
* '--fec=repair' now inserts '_fixed' before '.tar' instead of after.
* '--list' now can safely skip any trailing data added to a lzip file by
the option '--append'.
* '--list' now prints '+t' after the number of members to indicate the
presence of trailing data, and prints the size of the trailing data below
the size of the last member.
* Diagnostics for protected file size mismatch in '--fec=repair/test'
have been improved.
* It has been documented in the manual how to append a fec recovery
record to a tar.lz archive, and how to use it to test and repair the archive.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lziprecover_manual.html#Fec-files
