Digital archiving tools

[Richard]

In article <4D77C151.90005 at bitsavers.org>,
    Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:

> I made a decision a long time ago that the primary mode of storage would
> either be media images or uncompressed archive files (tar, or uncompressed
> zip, mostly).

Just out of curiosity: why uncompressed?

Is it so that localized corruption of the archives doesn't preclude
extraction of the remaining contents?
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