Compression

drak3

drak3

drak3

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Hey all,

I am wondering what sort of compression/formats you all use to backup/store stuff?

Is there a "safe" format list or something, or it does not matter.

Reason I am asking is that I am worried if, lets say, I put a 7zip or something somewhere and come back to it after 2-3 years and it wont work of I will have to go back to Windows XP and some old version of the decompression software etc.

I got some GBs of photos I d like to "put aside" in 1 package for the time being so that I can move it around easily.
 
I just use winRAR, again so I can move hundreds/thousands of small files around quickly. It's not going to stop working..
Bear in mind archives can be corrupted, so as always, keep a backup unless you wouldn't actually care that much if it is lost. You can get better compression but higher chance of corruption by creating a 'solid' archive. Regular archive - corruption probably affects one file only. Solid archive - corruption affects all files after the point of corruption.

I doubt 7zip is going to stop being supported for the foreseeable future either.
 
gunzip for me, combined with tar. Tend to use dd | gzip to back up entire partitions.
gzip and tar have both been around for ages, I doubt they'll stop being supported anytime soon.

I'm concerned about filesystem corruption but haven't worked out what to do about it yet
 
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