Re: 7zip instead of tar?

2013-06-20 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau 

On 06/19/2013 10:37 PM, Schlacta, Christ wrote:


Is it possible,  or even better, supported to use .7z instead of .tar 
for the backup archive format? I know .7z gets incredible compression 
rates and provides the archive layer functionality as well, and 
includes an encryption mechanism as well.




7zip is not supported, but it should not be difficult to write a wrapper 
for it, that's why we have the application-api.


Jean-Louis

7zip instead of tar?

2013-06-19 Thread Schlacta, Christ 
Is it possible,  or even better, supported to use .7z instead of .tar for
the backup archive format? I know .7z gets incredible compression rates and
provides the archive layer functionality as well, and includes an
encryption mechanism as well.