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fcorbelli / zpaqfranz

Deduplicating archiver with encryption and paranoid-level tests. Swiss army knife for the serious backup and disaster recovery manager. Ransomware neutralizer. Win/Linux/Unix
MIT License
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Would it be interesting to support zstd? #12

Closed diegoabadan closed 2 years ago

diegoabadan commented 2 years ago

I saw a fast algorithm with good compression: https://github.com/facebook/zstd

I don't know if it would bring improvements in relation to the one used by zpaq, nor how complicated it would be to include support for it, but I leave it here as a suggestion for analysis. :)

fcorbelli commented 2 years ago

Thank you Embedding new compressors is not an easy task, because zpaq use its own virtual machine (yes!) to describe the algorithms used

I am currently developing an advanced chunked-extraction mechanism to allow 100% verification with free space less than the overall size of the archive. The first objective is safety, then efficiency

diegoabadan commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback.

The first objective is safety, then efficiency

I'm happy with this choice :)