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Official repo for par2cmdline and libpar2

23 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 3 stories, 20 comments · first 2015-11-26 · latest 2025-04-30

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    Par2cmdline v1.0.0 Released
    story by GalaxySnail · 2025-04-30 · 0 comments
  2. …there are other tools (with more control) for creating recovery data, notably, parchive[1]. [1] https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
    comment by mmh0000 · 2023-09-18 · in WinRAR sold 5,449 licenses in a day
  3. …archives to multiple external drives. par2cmdline [1] is in some Linux repositories. [1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline [In need of a new maintainer]
    comment by LinuxBender · 2023-08-23 · in WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts
  4. …par2 default redundancy is set to 5%. PAR2 uses Reed-Solomon Coding to perform its calculations. https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
    comment by orangepurple · 2023-03-19 · in Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]
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    Par2cmdline is a PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool
    story by Tomte · 2022-12-01 · 0 comments
  6. …[3] OG PAR (libpar/parcmdline) is legit unmaintained; the last release was 21 years ago. [1] [2]: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline [3]: https://github.com/Parchive/par3cmdline [1]: https://github.com/Parchive/parcmdline/
    comment by notpeter · 2022-09-14 · in FSArchiver – Filesystem Archiver for Linux
  7. In case you want that for a format that doesn't have it: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
    comment by account42 · 2022-06-23 · in 7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps
  8. …few cards or have a few coffee soaked unreadable cards. something along the lines of par2 [1] [1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
    comment by LinuxBender · 2022-03-28 · in Why are punch card readers no longer in use?
  9. …- I created [Feature request / par2create] Option to regenerate par2 files if input file changed : https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline/issues/170
    comment by ronjouch · 2022-02-26 · in Don't Use RAR
  10. …been created, make sure to take a look at Parchive/par2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline/
    comment by c0l0 · 2022-01-27 · in LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds
  11. …drive - since then, I've incorporated it into the automated backups of my personal infrastructure. https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
    comment by snerbles · 2021-12-14 · in Western Digital HDD boss mentions archive disk drive idea
  12. Here is one application that this research could be applied to: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
    comment by vcdimension · 2021-11-29 · in Researchers Defeat Randomness to Create Ideal Code
  13. Thanks for the article and code. Also check out https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline I wish something like this was integrated into a modern and free archive format. RAR has it. RAR also got volume recovery: when creating split…
    comment by conductor · 2021-06-14 · in Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers
  14. …photos, old emails, etc will never change and I want to keep it that way. Look into par2 files ( https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline ). Arrange your 'backup data' in some logical way, then generate par2 files for logical "groups" (i.e,…
    comment by pwg · 2021-05-18 · in Ask HN: How to Ensure File Integrity
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    Par2cmdline is a PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool
    story by Tomte · 2021-01-16 · 35 comments
  16. …still works and start recovery on them right away if they don't. [1] - http://dvdisaster.net/ [2] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
    comment by pmoriarty · 2020-07-28 · in Optical Disc Data Rot: Burned CDs going bad
  17. Alternatives or additions: * Store par2 parity information alongside your cloud storage and/or NAS: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline * Use a file system with strong data checks and repairability, basically meaning, ZFS with a…
    comment by chungy · 2018-07-31 · in Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times
  18. …for recovery. The amount of redundancy (with a tradeoff for space) is also tuneable for both. [1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline [2] - http://dvdisaster.net/
    comment by pmoriarty · 2018-04-20 · in Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017)
  19. There's a par2 "fork" under active development - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline The fork compiled for me this week, when the official 0.3 version on Sourceforge wouldn't. I vaguely remembered par3 being discussed, but couldn't…
    comment by pronoiac · 2018-04-20 · in Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (2017)
  20. par2 is another alternative for redundant copies: https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline It's kind of like RAID for data, and removes the uncertainty that maybe ddrescue wouldn't get an I/O error and just receive and save bad data (it…
    comment by chungy · 2017-02-13 · in When Discs Die
  21. …that point, does it really matter what archiver I'm using at the time or should I still be worried? https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
    comment by alyandon · 2016-10-22 · in Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving
  22. …you use must use error correcting systems. Par is a good place to start. https://multipar.eu/ https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
    comment by angry_octet · 2016-10-22 · in Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving
  23. …in data files and repair them if necessary". GPar2[3] (alpha) is a simple GTK+ GUI for it. [1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive [3] - https://github.com/Parchive/gpar2
    comment by jakobdabo · 2015-11-26 · in After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release