Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 14:53:53 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-volume archives Message-ID: <e469ea71-fdba-b5fd-dd6d-d667dc6cf714@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <20190922042653.GB38319@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru> <20190921093801.4638945715fe79eb6a99b36f@sohara.org> <20190921182558.GB15412@admin.sibptus.ru> <20190921195407.256410cee20741ef86f2c1e0@sohara.org> <20190922042653.GB38319@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On 9/22/2019 12:26 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > No, the drive should remain the same, no need for another :-) It just > does not handle files over 4G, but it can accommodate lots of such > files. > Not sure if your plan is for long term storage or not, but in the old days, we used DVDs for archival backups which were notoriously lossy (tar, split as well as rar with built in multi-vol support). Not sure what USB sticks are like long term.=A0 A handy tool we regularly used was= archives/par2cmdline to add some redundancy as well as checksums to the files.=A0=A0 It saved me on a number of occasions. =A0=A0=A0 ---Mike --=20 ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 x203 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada =20
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