On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ian-Xue Li schrieb: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which >> comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. >> >> But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes >> leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover them. I wonder >> if this is true (in the sense that anyone once had a problem with pbzip2), >> because myself had never run into one of them. >> >> If so, it really a shame to abandon such a good tool though... > > I used it occasionally in the past and had no problems. Although I almost > never unpacked one of these files. My experience is similar to Thomas's. I used it in the past, mostly to compress large log files. It appeared to work, but I never tried to uncompress any of these files.
