Help with Winrar (or alternative?)

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I'm trying to upload a large amount of files (700 TIFF and JPEG files) to my Webserver. The total file size is around 18 gig.

I used Winrar to compress it (as one file) but after I had compressed it and uploaded it and wanted to unpack it - the server couldn't because the file was corrupt. When checking the file on my local PC, I realised that it was corrupt before the upload.

What is the best way to compress this?
Is it more advisable to RAR it, in smaller sections (lack of better word) such as
rar.01
rar.02
rar.03
etc.

Any suggestions?
thanks
 
Not much help here but next time you should test the archive for errors before uploading...
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Splitting it into parts is really for the occasions where your maximum file size is limited, for instance you want to back up 1 GiB onto a pair of CDs or if you wanted to put a DVD image on a FAT32-formatted disk. If it were me I suppose I'd probably split it into 1024 MiB parts just so that if one part becasme corrupted in transit I'd only have to replace that one part rather than all 18 GiB. Testing the archive's integrity is certainly a great way to be sure the problem's not on your end.
 
Yeah you can get WinRar to test archives for you as has been suggested. Also you might be better off splitting the archive into smaller sections. Perhaps 500Mb segments or 1Gb. It could be that one single 18Gb archive just overloads the server with so much work?
 
Cheers for the input guys, think I'll take all of the above advise.
Will split into smaller files and also test before I upload - was a bit of a numpty there.

Is there a way to automatically split the files - or just do the manual way (add files - rar - add files, rar) ?
 
Just add the files to WinRar and then tell it to split the archive into 1Gb chunks or whatever size. Its on the main menu you get when making a new archive I think.
 
MarcLister said:
Just add the files to WinRar and then tell it to split the archive into 1Gb chunks or whatever size. Its on the main menu you get when making a new archive I think.
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Cheers mate - found the option
 
So you created an archive on your PC, and it was corrupt? Not sure I read that right, but if that's the case you might want to test the stability of your system hardware.
 
hohum said:
So you created an archive on your PC, and it was corrupt? Not sure I read that right, but if that's the case you might want to test the stability of your system hardware.
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na, doesnt have to be a hardware problem. can just randomly happen, i have seen it just happen on a few ocations. on normal happy systems...
 
When uploading it is best to split, if you lose your connection you will have to do it all again if resume is not supported. If it is spit you will only have to re-upload x amount instead of the whole lot.

TrUz
 
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