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DAR (Disk ARchiver)[1] looks to be a good alternative. It supports random access, encryption, and individual file compression within the archive. [1] http://da

by acka 2y ago

DAR (Disk ARchiver)[1] looks to be a good alternative. It supports random access, encryption, and individual file compression within the archive. [1] http://dar.linux.free.fr/ http://dar.linux.free.fr/

Retr0id 2y ago
That seems counter to GP's suggestion of doing compression at a separate layer
- olddustytrail 2y ago
  Not really. There's no "dar compression" format. It calls different compression tools just like tar.
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  - Retr0id 2y ago
    You could say the same about ZIP (it uses deflate by default but optionally supports things like zstd)