Looking for fault-tolerant, multi-CD/DVD burning software [closed]

Looking for fault-tolerant, multi-CD/DVD burning software [closed] A few years back, I saw an open-source application that created fault-tolerant, multi-CD backup sets. The thought was that if a few sectors went bad on one CD, the data could be reconstructed from others similar to a RAID 5 hard-drive setup.
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Guest [Entry]

"I don't know of a disc burning application that integrates fault tolerant archive support, but the sort of fault recovery you are looking for can be provided by the par2 utilities (see here and here). I assume it is properly OSS, as evidenced by inclusion in the standard Debian repositories (link).

You could use par2 to create a set of parity files then burn the resulting files and the originals to separate discs (burning more than one copy of each for further will-I-be-able-to-read-it-at-all-later paranoia).

It might be worth further research, as it is not unlikely that some useful soul has created a writer with support for par2 built in, or published a set of script that integrates it with ""standard"" Linux disc writing tools."

Guest [Entry]

Based on the other answers given, I was able to track down this article from Life Hacker: Burn More Reliable Discs with QuickPar. It describes the functionality I need.