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ckolivas / lrzip

Long Range Zip
http://lrzip.kolivas.org
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Separate hash storage for later adding files to archive #10

Closed silvioster closed 9 years ago

silvioster commented 12 years ago

Can you please check if it's possible to add this feature to lrzip? Storing the hashset beside the archive would allow addition of files to the archive without doing an uncompress->untar->tar->compress cycle. For files that differ only slightly, like logs or binary backup snapshots, this would allow using lrzip as the main compression mechanism. Possibly might need some kind of file list structure, to be able to extract specific files instead of whole archive contents, although with archives which are uncompressed seldom, like logs/backups, it's less of an issue. Thanks!

ckolivas commented 9 years ago

Pipe dream if I had infinite hours...