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Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!)
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Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!) |
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Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:03:48 -0500 |
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On November 4, 2008 09:20:28 am address@hidden wrote:
> > It would be easy to change the cmdline zfec tool to process multiple
> > files, but what should it do with them? I guess maybe "for FILE in a
> > b c d e ; do zfec $FILE ; done" or else "tar cjf a.tar.bz2 a b c d e
> > && zfec a.tar.bz2" would probably be the best way to handle multiple
> > files.
> this was more a remark. You are totally right on this. It was rooted in
> duplicity use case, where the creating of parity, usually would have to
> be applied on a bunch of files .
> As ftplicity coder I just played with the idea to add zfec to existing
> duplicity repositories, backup data. But as duplicity is also handling
> the upload (what I want to keep) there is no way. It would be possible
> though, if I had a script that would rsync locally created duplicity
> data to an external backup storage.
This is similar to why I had chosen to use afio instead of tar for my old
backup system; it would compress each file individually instead of compress
the stream coming out of the tarball... If you hit a bad spot on tape that
could not be corrected, you lost a LOT less data.
-A.
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec v s. par2 (and, hello there!) (was: Announcing D éjà Dup), Peter Schuller, 2008/11/03
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!) (was: Announcing Déjà Dup), zooko, 2008/11/03
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!), edgar . soldin, 2008/11/04
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!), zooko, 2008/11/04
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!), edgar . soldin, 2008/11/04
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!),
Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) <=
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!), Edgar Soldin, 2008/11/04