Mike wrote regarding 'Re: [OT] Is your oldest CD-R still readable?' on Fri, Jan 13 at 22:44:
> Don't store big files unsplitted. When one chunk of a file fails you
> could still use other chunks getting the broken one from another copy.

If you wanna recover from chunks of files missing, look into par -
http://parchive.sourceforge.net/.  Sure, it was developed to help
recover broken unsenet binaries, but it's good for CDs, too.

--Danny
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