[arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?
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...
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Ian-Xue Li
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.
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.
Hi, I use it frequently to pack/unpack large files/folders (for instance different types of vmware images). the files/folders usually consume between 5-15GB (uncompressed). These files are then even more frequently unpacked by various different user, which (so far) never encountered any problems. So for at least one year everything went fine. regards - Michael On 19.11.2009 08:43, Ian-Xue Li wrote:
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...
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Ian-Xue Li
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Michael Schaefer
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Ray Kohler
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Thomas Bächler