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Welcome to the wiki of blockyarchive!

A lot of information has been added recently, but still more areas to be filled in. If you can't find what you need here, feel free to send me a message on Gitter or open an issue and I'll add it to the wiki.

Notes

EC-SeqBox/ECSBX containers are considered as SeqBox/SBX containers as well, so if you see a scenario/demo where it reads SBX containers, it's also applicable to ECSBX containers.

Index

• Getting started
• General data rescue
  • This is about using a combination of blkar modes for getting back your SBX encoded data in general
  • See the Data retrieval from (corrupted) medium and Repairing container for more information on the modes individually
• Encoding/archiving data
  • Encode mode basics
  • Data encoding scenarios and demos
  • Extremely resilient archive
• Picking suitable parameters
  • Calc mode basics
• Viewing metadata of container
  • Show mode basics
  • Container showing scenarios and demos
• Updating metadata of container
  • Update mode basics
  • Update scenarios and demos
• Decoding container
  • Decode mode basics
  • Data decoding scenarios-and-demos
• Checking container
  • Check mode basics
• Data retrieval from (corrupted) medium
  • Rescue mode basics
  • Data rescue scenarios and demos
• Adjusting burst error resistance level, fixing ordering, merging multiple copies of container to get a good copy
  • Sort mode basics
  • Container sorting scenarios and demos
• Repairing container
  • Repair mode basics
  • Data repair scenarios and demos
• FAQ
• Resources
  • Simple file server using blkar as backend
  • Demo scripts

Contributions

If blkar has been useful to you and maybe even saved your data in some cases, consider adding your use case to this wiki as reference for others. If you've written an article/blog/etc about blkar, you are welcome to add your link to the wiki as well (opening an issue first would be nicer since I'm not sure where to place these items yet).