From d909f71ac50b6f45f5b91f35fd801d66d31898cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 11:16:41 +0100 Subject: Merging upstream version 1.13. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- README | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 7d390e6..628144d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip and pdlzip. This recovery capability contributes to make the lzip format one of the best options for long-term data archiving. +Lziprecover is able to efficiently extract a range of bytes from a +multi-member file, because it only decompresses the members containing +the desired data. + +Lziprecover can print correct total file sizes and ratios even for +multi-member files. + When recovering data, lziprecover takes as arguments the names of the damaged files and writes zero or more recovered files depending on the operation selected and whether the recovery succeeded or not. The @@ -32,3 +39,13 @@ copies. If the cause of file corruption is damaged media, the combination GNU ddrescue + lziprecover is the best option for recovering data from multiple damaged copies. + + +Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Antonio Diaz Diaz. + +This file is free documentation: you have unlimited permission to copy, +distribute and modify it. + +The file Makefile.in is a data file used by configure to produce the +Makefile. It has the same copyright owner and permissions that configure +itself. -- cgit v1.2.3