NAME

       parchive - RAID like data recovery for PAR ver 1.0 files

DESCRIPTION

       The idea behind the parchive is to provide a tool to apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-
       like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives on Usenet. Current filespec  and  clients
       support the volumes for 'X' parity volumes present.

       The  key  to  this  mission  is  a  clean  file  format  specification  which  provides all the necessary
       capabilities for programs to easily verify and regenerate single missing parts out of a set of archives.

       We might just be able to make binary posting and downloading on Usenet a little easier. That's  a  pretty
       cool goal!

       Note  that  parchive  supports  the  old  legacy  version 1.0 PAR format.  For new projects, use the par2
       package which supports the version 2.0 PAR format which provides superior features.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does  not
       have a manual page.

USAGE

       parchive c(heck) [options] <par file>
              Check parity archive

       parchive r(ecover) [options] <par file>
              Restore missing volumes

       parchive a(dd) [options] <par file> [files]
              Add files to parity archive

       parchive m(ix) [options]
              Try to restore from all parity files at once

       parchive i(nteractive) [<par files>]
              Interactive mode (very bare-bones)

       Options: (Can be turned off with '+')

       -m     Move existing files out of the way

       -f     Fix faulty filenames

       -p<n>  Number of files per parity volume

       -n<n>  Number of parity volumes to create

       -d     Search for duplicate files

       -k     Keep broken files

       -s     Be smart if filenames are consistently different.

       +i     Do not add following files to parity volumes

       +c     Do not create parity volumes

       +C     Ignore case in filename comparisons

       +H     Do not check control hashes

       -v,+v  Increase or decrease verbosity

       -h,-?  Display this help

       --     Always treat following arguments as files

SEE ALSO

       The   full   documentation   (such   as   it   is)  for  parchive  is  maintained  on  the  web  site  at
       <http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=7717&group_id=30568>

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Rene Weber <rene_debmaint@elvenlord.com>, and edited by  Vince  Mulhollon
       <vlm@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).