Lziprecover 1.17-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.17-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.17-pre1.tar.gz
The sha1sums are:
b7a02a2b4e895bafaefb503f18e188b41cc11f2b lziprecover-1.17-pre1.tar.lz
2872fa52cad034c3d236cedcc870672ba585f1a5 lziprecover-1.17-pre1.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), able to repair slightly damaged
files, produce a correct file by merging the good parts of two or more
damaged copies, extract data from damaged files, decompress files and
test integrity of files.
The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.
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
multiple damaged copies.
Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of
the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip
and pdlzip.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html
Changes in this version:
* Merging files now uses an algorithm similar to the ones used to
solve the "Master Mind" game, which makes it much faster. Up to 2 orders
of magnitude faster depending on number of files and number of errors.
Please, report as a bug any files correctly merged by lziprecover 1.16
that this version can't merge.
* The targets "install-compress", "install-strip-compress",
"install-info-compress" and "install-man-compress" have been added to
the Makefile. (Installing compressed docs may become the default in the
future).
* The chapter "File names" has been added to the manual.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.
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