[Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!) (was: Announcing Déjà Dup)

[zooko]

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.

By the way, this is my first post to this list.  I look forward to  
messing with duplicity in the future.  Hi there!

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://allmydata.org/trac/zfec
[2] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe
[3] http://flud.org

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