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LZIPRECOVER(1) User Commands LZIPRECOVER(1)

NAME

lziprecover - recovers data from damaged lzip files

SYNOPSIS

lziprecover [options] [files]

DESCRIPTION

Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip compressed data format (.lz). Lziprecover is able to repair slightly damaged files (up to one single-byte error per member), produce a correct file by merging the good parts of two or more damaged copies, reproduce a missing (zeroed) sector using a reference file, extract data from damaged files, decompress files, and test integrity of files.

With the help of lziprecover, losing an entire archive just because of a corrupt byte near the beginning is a thing of the past.

Lziprecover can remove the damaged members from multimember files, for example multimember tar.lz archives.

Lziprecover provides random access to the data in multimember files; it only decompresses the members containing the desired data.

Lziprecover facilitates the management of metadata stored as trailing data in lzip 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

display this help and exit
output version information and exit
exit with error status if trailing data
convert lzma-alone files to lzip format
write to standard output, keep input files
decompress, test compressed file integrity
decompress a range of bytes to stdout
try to reproduce a zeroed sector in file
reproduce one level, all, or match length
name of lzip executable for --reproduce
reference file for --reproduce
overwrite existing output files
ignore some errors in -d, -D, -l, -t, --dump
keep (don't delete) input files
print (un)compressed file sizes
repair errors in file using several copies
place the output into <file>
suppress all messages
try to repair a corrupt byte in file
split multimember file in single-member files
test compressed file integrity
be verbose (a 2nd -v gives more)
dump members, damaged/empty, tdata to stdout
remove members, tdata from files in place
copy files to stdout stripping members given
exit with error status if empty member in file
exit with error status if 1st LZMA byte not 0
allow trailing data seeming corrupt header
reset the first LZMA byte of each member

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...

To extract all the files from archive 'foo.tar.lz', use the commands 'tar -xf foo.tar.lz' or 'lziprecover -cd foo.tar.lz | tar -xf -'.

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

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to lzip-bug@nongnu.org
Lziprecover home page: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 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.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for lziprecover is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and lziprecover programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info lziprecover

should give you access to the complete manual.

January 2024 lziprecover 1.24