[lug] Compressed Archive

[Hugh Brown]

depends on the data.  If it is the only record of something that the
company depends on, it probably is worth it.

If it's Bert and Alice's email flame fest backup, no it isn't worth it.

My 2 cents.

Hugh

On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 09:45, Harold Green wrote:
> The problem is that the data has been moved around an the quality is
> unknown.
> This creates infinite possibilities for dat error.
> 
> 1.  Moved from UNIX to PC without converting.
> 
> 2.  Compressed with unknown compression software.
> 
> 3.  Extreme possibility Data was corrupted before transfer.
> 
> 4.  Compression from unknow OS, i.e (UNIX, HP-UX, XENIX, etc)
> 
> This is but a few of the problems.
> 
> You need to find out the original location and machine the compression
> was completed on, and the type of Operating System.  Work forward from
> there.  You may not save all of it but maybe enough.  If not you're
> looking at a major examination of all data and how to reconstruct.  This
> leads to the question, "IS IT WORTH THE EFFORT?"
> 
> HG
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