arcK

Created Monday 04 November 2024

About

arcK is a command-line, cross-platform archival tool to preserve data.

This is an exciting project to archive important data to ensure successful recovery. To achieve this, the directory is encoded into 5 parts with 2 extra parts for redundancy, which means you only need 3 parts to restore.

This may take longer to do, but file integrity is of the utmost importance and this project ensures that even with 2 missing parts, data can be restored; an excellent use case is to store across multiple cloud storage providers or regional buckets with the same cloud provider. I have stored my personal photos across two S3 regions. Each bucket does not need to have all files, therefore I have stored 3 in one and 3 in another; with one part stored in both (bucket_US: 0,1,2; bucket_EU: 2,3,4).

In the example below, I have chosen the directory 'Interesting files', which has been put into 5 parts.

For more information visit the manual.