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


From: Nathaniel Nutter
Subject: Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity - What's Next?
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:21:45 -0700


On Oct 7, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote:

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

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

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

xar has my vote! It seems to do well at preserving metadata, etc.

http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2007/05/07/xar-rox/

Nate




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