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Archiver: A simple archiver for backups
There are many different programs for archiving and backups. Some of these include advanced features like deduplication/encryption etc.
This program does not do that! The more complicated the archive format the more difficult it is to recover from corrupted backups.
Therefore this program has a different approach:
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Use standard archiving technologies: ZIP files have been around for ages, are well understood and can be easily recovered in case of corruption.
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If some of the ZIP file is corrupted (e.g. a bad block) the entire archive is not lost! It is possible to recover most of the other files in the archive.
This program was written to produce backups of photos, home videos etc. The files are added to multiple ZIP files, each roughly 1Gb in size.
In order to keep it simple, we do not break files across the ZIP files and each ZIP file is a completely independent ZIP (we do not use multidisk ZIPs since they are not really supported by modern archivers).
Reading the data
We dont necessarily want to have to unarchive all the files in order to view a few photos. Therefore this program also adds fuse mode.
In this mode all ZIP files are combined into a single archive exported via a fuse filesystem. Files are read on demand from the archives.
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