Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!)

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

zooko wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2008, at 16:11 PM, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>
> > And yes, as Peter has said, duplicity needs a lot of work, especially on
> > error handling and par2 for protection of backups.
>
> Consider also using zfec [1], a library that I maintain.  It has a 
> Python bindings and it is actively used in the Allmtydata-Tahoe-LAFS 
> project [2], and the flud project [3], at least.  zfec is based on 
> the long-standing, widely used "fec" library thanks to Luigi Rizzo and 
> many contributors over the years.  It seems to be much faster than 
> par2 for a few experiments that I tried (documented in the zfec 
> README.txt), but it is possible that I was using par2 wrong.
That would likely be vastly preferable because libpar2 is a pretty 
stubborn piece of code, it does what it does and does not give you much 
say in anything. Especially if you can get zfec to incrementally 
generate error checking data across every file you send to the server 
(libpar2 can only do it across  files that already exist)