2004-09-29: CP and Windows Servers

[DVHost]

Originally Posted by tracewebspace

not much choice when comcast is the only game in town.

a couple of different tests put me between 1.0 and 1.8 megabits per second

by the way who is that, thats one hell of a connection, t1 speeds.

I'm using Insight Broadband. Essentially a repackaged AT&T service.

[mresell]

powerarchiver is the best (IMO) for any compressed file. Love it.

[craigdunlop]

Originally Posted by Brangwyn

www.powerarchiver.com

I trialled PowerArchiver and it has everything under the sun and was quite good to use, untill I came across a 90gig TAR archive. Every product on the market I tried to decompress this with, including PowerArchiver spat the dummy. PowerArchiver got through it but ended up corrupting files. Support never responded to my query. I finally tried WinRar (current version) and it did it without a hitch! It also deals nicely with iso too and integrates zip into context menu and comes with lifetime upgrade in purchase. Think I'll stick with this now.

[Brangwyn]

I seem to recall a recent version of Powerarchivers patch notes mentioning something about handling "larger" files better now. 90Gig thats a damm big archive though !

[craigdunlop]

Yeah I saw that in their update notes but I guess it still needs some work for TAR. Bad thing is that it doesn't give you any indication of corruption and many of the files are in fact okay so unless you check carefully you may never know that there were data errors.

Is a stupid size to have an archive - I personally don't compress any of my own backups, takes too long and adds an extra level of loss and inconvenience should they ever be called upon.