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Re: by badsectoracula on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @11:26AM (#38086293)
You are most likely biased. I use RAR for most of my own larger archives, even on Linux (i use WinRAR via Wine - and yes i bought WinRAR some years ago :-P), mainly because its compression is much faster with comparable results to something like 7z/txz/etc.

Though i rarely distribute stuff in RAR.

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Re: by ericpauley on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:02PM (#38086935)
Why not Zstandard?
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Re: by MikusR on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:53PM (#38089614)
Built in recovery records
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Re: by mips_r4300i on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @07:12AM (#38096812)
I use rar for backups as well. Its superpower is recovery records. Reading bytes off a hard disk doesn't always work the same years later. I have seen corruption on hdds.

Also use it to span backups across multiple archival M-Disc blurays.

I also prefer the UI and configurable dictionary size to 7zip. Rar lets you isolate each file if you wish instead of solid compression. Ever had to insert 2 blurays just to get a 3kb text file out of an archive?

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