Lziprecover(1) recovers data from damaged lzip files

SYNOPSIS

lziprecover [,options/] [,files/]

DESCRIPTION

Lziprecover - Data recovery tool and decompressor for the lzip format.

Lziprecover can repair perfectly most files with small errors (up to one single-byte error per member), without the need of any extra redundance at all. Losing an entire archive just because of a corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.

Lziprecover can also produce a correct file by merging the good parts of two or more damaged copies, extract data from damaged files, decompress files and test integrity of files.

Lziprecover is not a replacement for regular backups, but a last line of defense for the case where the backups are also damaged.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
display this help and exit
-V, --version
output version information and exit
-a, --trailing-error
exit with error status if trailing data
-A, --alone-to-lz
convert lzma-alone files to lzip format
-c, --stdout
write to standard output, keep input files
-d, --decompress
decompress
-D, --range-decompress=<range>
decompress a range of bytes (N-M) to stdout
-f, --force
overwrite existing output files
-i, --ignore-errors
make '--range-decompress' ignore data errors
-k, --keep
keep (don't delete) input files
-l, --list
print total file sizes and ratios
-m, --merge
correct errors in file using several copies
-o, --output=<file>
place the output into <file>
-q, --quiet
suppress all messages
-R, --repair
try to repair a small error in file
-s, --split
split multimember file in single-member files
-t, --test
test compressed file integrity
-v, --verbose
be verbose (a 2nd -v gives more)

If no file names are given, or if a file is '-', lziprecover decompresses from standard input to standard output. Numbers may be followed by a multiplier: k = kB = 10^3 = 1000, Ki = KiB = 2^10 = 1024, M = 10^6, Mi = 2^20, G = 10^9, Gi = 2^30, etc...

Exit status: 0 for a normal exit, 1 for environmental problems (file not found, invalid flags, I/O errors, etc), 2 to indicate a corrupt or invalid input file, 3 for an internal consistency error (eg, bug) which caused lziprecover to panic.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to [email protected]
Lziprecover home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2016 Antonio Diaz Diaz. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.