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diff --git a/app-arch/lziprecover/metadata.xml b/app-arch/lziprecover/metadata.xml index 1d78b6514ce5..5e2c4af9ecad 100644 --- a/app-arch/lziprecover/metadata.xml +++ b/app-arch/lziprecover/metadata.xml @@ -1,51 +1,51 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> <pkgmetadata> - <maintainer type="person"> - <email>polynomial-c@gentoo.org</email> - <name>Lars Wendler</name> - </maintainer> - <maintainer type="person"> - <email>mgorny@gentoo.org</email> - <name>Michał Górny</name> - </maintainer> - <longdescription lang="en"> - Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip - compressed data format (.lz), able to repair slightly damaged files, - recover badly damaged files from two or more copies, extract data from + <maintainer type="person"> + <email>polynomial-c@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Lars Wendler</name> + </maintainer> + <maintainer type="person"> + <email>mgorny@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Michał Górny</name> + </maintainer> + <longdescription lang="en"> + Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip + compressed data format (.lz), able to repair slightly damaged files, + recover badly damaged files from two or more copies, extract data from damaged files, decompress files and test integrity of files. - The lzip file format is designed for long-term data archiving. It is clean, - provides very safe 4 factor integrity checking, and is backed by the + The lzip file format is designed for long-term data archiving. It is clean, + provides very safe 4 factor integrity checking, and is backed by the recovery capabilities of lziprecover. - Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of the - compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip and + Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of the + compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip and pdlzip. - Lziprecover makes lzip files resistant to bit-flip (one of the most common - forms of data corruption), and can safely merge multiple damaged backup + Lziprecover makes lzip files resistant to bit-flip (one of the most common + forms of data corruption), and can safely merge multiple damaged backup copies. - If the cause of file corruption is damaged media, the combination GNU - ddrescue + lziprecover is the best option for recovering data from multiple + If the cause of file corruption is damaged media, the combination GNU + ddrescue + lziprecover is the best option for recovering data from multiple damaged copies. - If a file is too damaged for lziprecover to repair it, all the recoverable + If a file is too damaged for lziprecover to repair it, all the recoverable data in all members of the file can be extracted with the '-D' option. - Lziprecover is able to efficiently extract a range of bytes from a - multi-member file, because it only decompresses the members containing the + Lziprecover is able to efficiently extract a range of bytes from a + multi-member file, because it only decompresses the members containing the desired data. - Lziprecover can print correct total file sizes and ratios even for + Lziprecover can print correct total file sizes and ratios even for multi-member files. - When recovering data, lziprecover takes as arguments the names of the - damaged files and writes zero or more recovered files depending on the - operation selected and whether the recovery succeeded or not. The damaged + When recovering data, lziprecover takes as arguments the names of the + damaged files and writes zero or more recovered files depending on the + operation selected and whether the recovery succeeded or not. The damaged files themselves are never modified. - When decompressing or testing file integrity, lziprecover behaves like lzip + When decompressing or testing file integrity, lziprecover behaves like lzip or lunzip. - To give you an idea of its possibilities, when merging two copies, each of - them with one damaged area affecting 1 percent of the copy, the probability - of obtaining a correct file is about 98 percent. With three such copies the - probability rises to 99.97 percent. For large files (a few MB) with small - errors (one sector damaged per copy), the probability approaches 100 percent + To give you an idea of its possibilities, when merging two copies, each of + them with one damaged area affecting 1 percent of the copy, the probability + of obtaining a correct file is about 98 percent. With three such copies the + probability rises to 99.97 percent. For large files (a few MB) with small + errors (one sector damaged per copy), the probability approaches 100 percent even with only two copies. - Lziprecover is not a replacement for regular backups, but a last line of + Lziprecover is not a replacement for regular backups, but a last line of defense for the case where the backups are also damaged. - </longdescription> + </longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |