On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Thomas Bächler
Ian-Xue Li schrieb:
Hi,
I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files.
But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover them. I wonder if this is true (in the sense that anyone once had a problem with pbzip2), because myself had never run into one of them.
If so, it really a shame to abandon such a good tool though...
I used it occasionally in the past and had no problems. Although I almost never unpacked one of these files.
My experience is similar to Thomas's. I used it in the past, mostly to compress large log files. It appeared to work, but I never tried to uncompress any of these files.