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How resilient is the .7z file format?

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I'm intended to package up quite a lot of data in to archives so that I can store them using an on-line file storage service and to various local backups - the intention being that this will be fairly long term static storage. I'm currently planning to compress them using 7zip into .7z files, but I…

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Any compression tool is going to be subject to corruption issues on very large files. Your best bet is probably to use smaller files, but NOT volumes of a larger archive - as separate archives. AFAIK 7zip will lose the whole archive if you have file…

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