On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Paddy Sreenivasan <
psreeniva...@carbonite.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Chris Nighswonger <
> cnighswon...@foundations.edu> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Schlacta, Christ <aarc...@aarcane.org>wrote:
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>>> This subject segues to a feature request fairly well. Can zwc or another
>>> client be made to integrate well with the existing Windows 7 and 8 system
>>> backup and restore interface? That'd be a dream.
>>>
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>> ZWC uses the MS volume shadow service to take a snapshot of the volume.
>> Then they use the PKzip library[1] to zip it up (which is probably why the
>> source is not GPL).
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> We don't use Pkzip command to zip it up. We use ZIP64 archive format.
> PKzip is only tool that we have seen that uses ZIP64 format
> well. Others zip programs also attempt to do so but may not work in all
> cases.
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So what's wrong with 7zip's[1] library?

Kind Regards,
Chris


[1] http://7-zip.org/7z.html

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