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| From | Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: More on corrupted disk data.. |
| Date | 2015-01-05 14:29 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <1njqnb-15h.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> (permalink) |
| References | <m8e6sl$ec7$1@news.albasani.net> |
On 05/01/15 14:25, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > The question of recovering damaged data have raised a question in my mind: > > What organisation of data has the most redundancy (apart from RAID) so > the best chance of recovering significant chunks of it? it would seem > that a zip or other compressed single backup file has to be the worst..?? > > Depends if the compression algorithm is block based. If so, then the loss of one block would take out 2, maybe 3 block of real data and the rest would be recoverable. A compression scheme that could not resync beyond a broken block would be a very poor choice.
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More on corrupted disk data.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-05 14:25 +0000
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2015-01-05 14:29 +0000
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-01-05 15:01 +0000
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-01-05 09:35 -0600
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-05 15:46 +0000
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. "John F" <j@j.ii> - 2015-01-08 13:25 -0800
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-01-08 14:09 -0800
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-08 23:35 +0000
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-01-08 16:05 -0800
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-01-08 20:01 -0800
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-01-08 20:51 -0800
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-01-08 21:38 -0800
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-01-08 21:44 -0800
Re: More on corrupted disk data.. The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-09 09:18 +0000
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