Quoting André Dalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What I did myself, was to split my large files into smaller chunks.
> I use GNU 'split' to split it into 50MB chunks, then I use parity
> archives ('par' utility) to generate redundancy data for my split
> volumes.
> This way I can recover the large file even if data errors on the disc
> prevent me from reading a few of the split volumes.
> The par program also makes it easy to verify the integrity of all of
> the split volumes with one command.
> If they're all OK, I can just use gnu 'cat' to concatenate all the
> files to disk.
> I also include the md5sum of the large file so I can verify it is OK
> after concatenating the small files.Is there a good "par" HOWTO somewhere? > What I can't do, is repair/recover bad volumes without copying all the > split volumes to disk first. That's the price. -- Bryan J. Smith, E.I. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thebs.org _______________________________________________ Dvdrtools-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dvdrtools-users
