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[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.18-pre1 released


From: Antonio Diaz Diaz
Subject: [Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.18-pre1 released
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:27:36 +0200
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Lziprecover 1.18-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.18-pre1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.18-pre1.tar.gz

The sha1sums are:
e7a0371cc9624ffc33d1bf4b7500a915f8dba19f  lziprecover-1.18-pre1.tar.lz
104a437ae4e19ef6716a8f0df4d56dc81eddeaf1  lziprecover-1.18-pre1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip compressed data format (.lz), able to repair slightly damaged files, produce a correct file by merging the good parts of two or more damaged copies, extract data from damaged files, decompress files and test integrity of files.

Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip and pdlzip.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.

A nice feature of the lzip format is that a corrupt byte is easier to repair the nearer it is from the beginning of the file. Therefore, with the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.

If the cause of file corruption is damaged media, the combination GNU ddrescue[1] + lziprecover is the best option for recovering data from multiple damaged copies.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html


Changes in this version:

* "--repair" now tries to detect gross damage in the file before attempting to repair it.

* "--repair" now tries bytes at member offsets 7 and 8 first because errors in these bytes sometimes can't be detected until the end of the member.

* The new option "-x, --show-packets", which shows the LZMA packets (coding sequences) coded in a given file, has been added.


[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.




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