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Re:After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release by pasbesoin on Thursday November 26, 2015 @04:47PM (#10634887)
Just what I was going to ask about. I thought WinRAR had the option to include parity checks / redundancy within the data.

BTW, is there a current... "turnkey" (simple, "clicky"), I guess, *NIX solution for doing that within an archive?

Re:After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release by jakobdabo on Thursday November 26, 2015 @05:00PM (#10634932)
There is this par2cmdline[1] tool which is (as the name suggests) a console program "for creating and using PAR2[2] files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary". GPar2[3] (alpha) is a simple GTK+ GUI for it.

[1] - https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive

[3] - https://github.com/Parchive/gpar2

Re:After 5 Years there's a new 7zip non-beta release by pgeorgi on Thursday November 26, 2015 @05:03PM (#10634948)
If you want to build something like that, http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/ras-1.03.tar.gz can provide the redundancy support.