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Errors sound deeply concerning. What kind of errors? Is it too risky to use [pl]bzip2 for archival reasons?



Well, errors at a rate of one every few terabyte, and most of the time it was mainly decompression, and always caused program abort iirc.

But those have been a few years ago, so my best advice would be: retest.

You are testing your archives anyway, right? ;-)


>You are testing your archives anyway, right? ;-)

Umm no, I handle errors which I expect to be reported to me.




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