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		userbinator on Nov 19, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All About Erasure Codes (2004) [pdf] Those who have used Usenet to get binaries will be familiar with these, which work on the same principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive

loeg on Nov 19, 2017 [–]

Indeed. I use par2 on my local tar backups, to protect against a few blocks corruption.

People may also be familiar with RAID5/RAID6/RAID-Z, which use erasure codes to protect data from drive loss.

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