[Lzip-bug] Lziprecover 1.22-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lziprecover 1.22-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.22-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lziprecover/lziprecover-1.22-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
8b316b2e914d5311a5979395a48e0a85763e157e5471c9900f67a3f066c87bed 
lziprecover-1.22-rc1.tar.lz
69d66d395f5f7f7e1615cdb8cf3fd375cdc13fffd2439dd3dcc49aa1c94c944f 
lziprecover-1.22-rc1.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). Lziprecover is able to repair slightly damaged 
files, produce a correct file by merging the good parts of two or more 
damaged copies, reproduce a missing (zeroed) sector using a reference file, 
extract data from damaged files, decompress files, and test integrity of files.

Lziprecover can remove the damaged members from multimember files, for 
example multimember tar.lz archives.

Lziprecover provides random access to the data in multimember files; it only 
decompresses the members containing the desired data.

Lziprecover facilitates the management of metadata stored as trailing data 
in lzip files.

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 
damaged lzip files.

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


Changes in this version:

  * Reproduce mode now does not fail if the decompressor does not support 
the option -0.

  * When decompressing or testing, lziprecover now reports an error if a 
file name is empty (lziprecover -t "").

  * 7 test files have been added to the testsuite.

  * Two compiler warnings have been fixed. (Reported by Nissanka Gooneratne).

This is (hopefully) the only release candidate before 1.22 stable.

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


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lziprecover author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a right, not a crime. Free Catalan political prisoners.
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If you care about long-term archiving, please help me replace xz with lzip. 
See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.