[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.23-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lziprecover 1.23-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.23-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.23-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
518247bd3b2a4c3c7f55bc9a29f118fb38ef64ce32934c55a99aa1db0cba825a 
lziprecover-1.23-rc1.tar.lz
ad1406b805025857299efb7410f2937e2acb8bbe1180922be84b7028747bd9cd 
lziprecover-1.23-rc1.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 is able to repair slightly damaged 
files, produce a correct file by merging the good parts of two or more 
damaged copies, reproduce a missing (zeroed) sector using a reference file, 
extract data from damaged files, decompress files, and test integrity of files.

Lziprecover can remove the damaged members from multimember files, for 
example multimember tar.lz archives.

Lziprecover provides random access to the data in multimember files; it only 
decompresses the members containing the desired data.

Lziprecover facilitates the management of metadata stored as trailing data 
in lzip files.

A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to repair 
the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with the help of 
lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a corrupt byte near 
the beginning is a thing of the past.

If the cause of file corruption is damaged media, the combination GNU 
ddrescue[1] + lziprecover is the best option for recovering data from 
damaged lzip files.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html


Changes in this version:

  * Decompression time has been reduced by 5-12% depending on file.

  * In case of error in a numerical argument to a command line option, 
lziprecover now shows the name of the option and the range of valid values.

  * Options '--dump' and '--strip' now refuse to write compressed data to a 
terminal except when dumping trailing data with '--dump=tdata'.

  * The option '-U, --unzcrash' now requires an argument: '1' to test 1-bit 
errors, or 'B<size>' to test zeroed blocks.

  * The memory tester now allocates the dictionary once per member instead 
of doing it for each test. This makes '-U, --unzcrash' about two times 
faster on my machine on files with an uncompressed size larger than about 30 MB.

  * '-W, --debug-decompress' now continues decompressing the members 
following the damaged member if it has been decompressed fully (just failed 
with a CRC mismatch).

  * The tool unzcrash now runs faster by using execvp instead of popen to 
avoid invoking /bin/sh. It also prints byte or block position in messages.

  * Several descriptions have been improved in manual, '--help', and man page.


[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.

--
If you care about data safety and long-term archiving, please consider using 
lzip. See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html Thanks.