XAR

Posted Jun 7, 2007 9:56 UTC (Thu) by ringerc (subscriber, #3071)
In reply to: XAR by claesh
Parent article: rpm5.org launched

If it can do zip-like per-file compression rather than being a compressed stream (important for robustness especially across multi-volume backups) and remain extractable without a master index at end-of-file, provide archive integrity features and offer a supplimental and non-critical archive index for faster access ... then I'll be on it in a second. Per-file encryption would be a killer too.

tar+gz and zip are both uninspiring for backups and other purposes. Both are too prone to certain types of damage causing total loss of the contents of the archive, and neither provide any solid insurance of archive integrity.