On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:53, Robin Laing wrote: > Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm wondering if people could give me suggestion about the most > > economical ways to archive data more permanently. > > > > Having done some stuff with RAR files, I would be tempted to make > archives on DVD by using RAR files. As these can be rebuilt if planned > properly. > What is the advantage of RAR over the traditional gzip or bzip2 ? Would you care to elaborate? Any website / pointer ? Putting 'rar' in google I get mostly winRAR stuffs. Thanks. RDB