Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity - What's Next?

[Eyvind Bernhardsen]

On 3. okt.. 2007, at 02.16, Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> mike wrote:
> > On 10/2/07, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > 6) New file format.  I'm thinking that this needs to be addressed if
> > > we're going to play in the major leagues.  Having to decompress/ 
> > > decrypt
> > > several megs/gigs to get to a small critical file to restore is  
> > > not a
> > > good thing.  It's secure, but at a high price.  There are some other
> > > projects out there with better formats.  What we need is one already
> > > vetted by heavy use, so any suggestions will be considered.
> >
> > DAR might be something to look at. That's the only thing that comes  
> > to
> > mind for me.
>
> http://dar.linux.free.fr
>
> Looking at it already.  Its in C++ and has a reasonable API that could
> be accessed with Python easily.  There may even be a python-dar module
> out there hiding somewhere.

Xar looks similar to dar, and already has Python bindings:

http://code.google.com/p/xar/

Eyvind Bernhardsen