CLI Submissions • zpaqfranz: advanced multiversioned archiver (various OS) + Windows GUI app

I don't know much about it yet, but this seems interesting to play around with. The zpaqfranz cli app would be useful for automation while various GUI Apps (also TPFC ones) can be used to browse the archive and extract specific files. When "updating" an archive it only adds the changes so is very efficient.

zpaqfranz: advanced multiversioned archiver, with HW acceleration and SFX (on Windows)

Deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests. Swiss army knife for the serious backup and disaster recovery manager. Like 7z or RAR on steroids, with deduplicated "snapshots" (versions). Conceptually similar to the Mac time machine, but much more efficiently. zpaq 7.15 fork.

At every run only data changed since the last execution will be added, creating a new version (the "snapshot"). It is then possible to restore the data @ the single version, just like snapshots by zfs or virtual machines, but a single-file level.

General intro to ZPAQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPAQ and its initial (now retired) creator https://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html

zpaqfranz is a fork of ZPAQ adding a number of features and speed improvements for a variety of platforms Win/Linux/Unix/others...

Website: https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/ (has demo videos)
Releases: https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/releases
Documentation: https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/wiki/

The command line app has a rudimentary built-in GUI browser (see help). The developer of zpaqfranz also created a Windows GUI application to browse and extract archives called PAKKA https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz/ ... -extractor

Features

• Keeps a forever-to-ever copy (even thousands of versions), conceptually similar to Mac's time machine, but much more efficiently.
• Ideal for virtual machine disk storage (ex backup of vmdk), virtual disks (VHDx) and even TrueCrypt containers.
• Easily handles millions of files and tens of TBs of data.
• Allows rsync (or zfs replica) copies to the cloud with minimal data transfer and encryption.
• Multiple possibilities of data verification, fast, advanced and even paranoid.
• Some optimizations for modern hardware (aka: SSD, NVMe, multithread).
• By default triple-check with "chunked" SHA-1, XXHASH64 and CRC-32 (!).
• For even higher level of paranoia, it is possible to use others hash algorithms, as
  • MD5
  • SHA-1 of the full-file (NIST FIPS 180-4)
  • XXH3-128
  • BLAKE3 128
  • SHA-2-256 (NIST FIPS 180-4)
  • SHA-3-256 (NIST FIPS 202)
  • WHIRLPOOL (ISO/IEC 10118-3)
  • HIGHWAY (64,128,256) ...And much more.

No complex (and fragile) repository folders, with hundreds of "whatever", just only a single file!

TPFC GUI Apps:
* PeaZip: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1048
* Bandizip: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2397

Total Commander ZPAQ plugin:
* WCX ZPAQ https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=42739
(Be sure to check the instructions to change some settings to make it more useful to browse ZPAQ archives in TC)

PAKKA screenshot

Statistics: Posted by lintalist — Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:03 am

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