On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 09:20 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > If you configure RAR properly it will create a set of files that can be > used to rebuild the archive. You can set the amount of rebuild files so > if you have a set of files that are corrupted, you can do a repair. > > It can split large files into more manageable parts or smaller sizes if > there is a corrupted DVD where you lose part of the DVD, you can still > recover all of the data. > > You could make a tar.gz image of your data and then rar the data into > smaller files to be saved. Many options abound. > > RAR is not free but shareware http://www.rarlab.com/ There is also an RPM available from http://freshrpms.net that plays nice with file roller. Not sure what the license issues (if any) are though. -- Brian Gaynor www.pmccorp.com FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz canis 09:05:23 up 38 min, 1 user, load average: 1.46, 0.87,
