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For data recovery of archival stuff it's better to keep it uncompressed, no?
by sehw 11d ago
For data recovery of archival stuff it's better to keep it uncompressed, no?
- zamadatix 11d agoDepends on the specific scenario. E.g. efficient compression can speed up recovery from slow media and provide space for increased parity.
- _flux 11d agoSo apparently zamadatix's point wasn't well taken, but I think it could be an effective approach to store the same data twice over to increase the likelihood of successful recovery. Could be even be even ten times, or e.g. 6+4 with redundant recovery coding. Although you do have a point that the compressed data might be more difficult to decipher, if it doesn't have sufficient redundancy to skip bad parts, or if it is essential that the data is aligned in a certain way (e.g. disk images, and probably many other formats) and the format doesn't take this into account. Shorter window sizes, window reset markers, and explicit offset information could mitigate those problems.
- account42 11d agoError correction codes would be a much better use than simply duplicating the data.