Hi @gkiefer,
recently I played a little with par2 (https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline) which creates parity informatoin to repair damaged files.
I want to know if it would be a good idea to automatically generate parity information for the created archive.
And if that is sensible, what would be a good approach to do it?
My base assumtion would be that, given enough storage space available, YES it could be a good thing to add parity data for repairing backup archive files, especially for long term storage.
A good place to implement it would be in the POST_BACKUP (), isn't it? There a simple call to par2 create $backup_filename would be enough. But how to get the filename of the created archive?
But: Am I overlooking something here and it is not neccessary?
Hi @gkiefer,
recently I played a little with
par2(https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline) which creates parity informatoin to repair damaged files.I want to know if it would be a good idea to automatically generate parity information for the created archive.
And if that is sensible, what would be a good approach to do it?
My base assumtion would be that, given enough storage space available, YES it could be a good thing to add parity data for repairing backup archive files, especially for long term storage.
A good place to implement it would be in the
POST_BACKUP (), isn't it? There a simple call topar2 create $backup_filenamewould be enough. But how to get the filename of the created archive?But: Am I overlooking something here and it is not neccessary?