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		jmillikin on July 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xz format considered inadequate for long-term arch... This is nonsense. Replication to storage in different failure domains is quite sufficient to ensure long-term data preservation, and errors cannot "propagate" to archives unless your risk model involves angry wizards.

grosswait on July 24, 2022 [–]

Bit rot is a thing. It seems like you have a different idea of what archival means than most of us.

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