On 06/10/2010 09:20 AM, g wrote: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 06/09/2010 10:30 AM, g wrote: >> >>> what do you do if archive file gets broken? >>> >>> >> In the past 10+ years that has not happened. If it does, I'll let you >> know what I did. FWIW, I always compress my archive files. >> > may you continue to be blessed with such good fortune. > > post it on list. i promise not to laugh. :) > OK... For the fun of it I dug up an old CD-RW disk that had a compressed tar file on it with a photo archive. If I recall correctly, the disk was written on a Liteon drive that lasted less than 6 months in my system of the time. The CD was written in February of 2002 and was stored in a box packed up in 2002 when I moved offices. It hadn't see the light of day until today. Extracted the full archive without problem. Of course this is only one file on one old CD-RW disk. It doesn't prove anything. Just like... > i used to compress archives. unfortunately, i did lose some one time. > it was then that i decided that i would limit my archive sizes to > smaller files. > > ...there is no evidence that you wouldn't have lost data even if the archive size was smaller or uncompressed. -- Everything is possible. Pass the word. -- Rita Mae Brown, "Six of One" 葛斯克 愛德華 / 台北市八德路四段
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