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).