This seems counter to the "unix philosophy". I would expect to use an archiving tool piped into an encryption tool. I'm not sure of the utility of something that combines the two.
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#32Not a very creative name. There is enough IT related products with the name Arc already.
In fact, there's already an archiver named ARC from the BBS days:
Re: Show HN: Arc – secure file archiver
#33Why use this over tarsnap's client (which is also free software and has features like local deduplication).
Tarsnap's client is not free software:
"2. You may use the Tarsnap client code for the sole purpose of accessing the service."
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#34Can anyone tell me what advantage tgz has over zip? I usually curse when I have to use it, because it lacks indexes and is pretty much only good for archival tapes, if that. I wish we'd all move to a more modern format, like zip or 7zip.
afaik neither zip nor 7z store unix permissions, file ownership, symlinks and a bunch of other features.
Other than that the "modern" version of it is .tar.xz.
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#35Not a very creative name. There is enough IT related products with the name Arc already.
I used the arc archiver mentioned by others, back in the 90's if not earlier. I've probably still got archives on a disk somewhere.
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#36Seems like it would be more unix-like to just pipe tar into gpg.
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#37Can anyone tell me what advantage tgz has over zip? I usually curse when I have to use it, because it lacks indexes and is pretty much only good for archival tapes, if that. I wish we'd all move to a more modern format, like zip or 7zip.
afaik neither zip nor 7z store unix permissions, file ownership, symlinks and a bunch of other features. Other than that the "modern" version of it is .tar.xz.
I believe, technically, you can store that data in a zip's metadata headers. It is just pretty much every zip/unzip implementation doesn't support it / permission restoration breaks across OSes
Re: Show HN: Arc – secure file archiver
#38Can anyone tell me what advantage tgz has over zip? I usually curse when I have to use it, because it lacks indexes and is pretty much only good for archival tapes, if that. I wish we'd all move to a more modern format, like zip or 7zip.
zip (the version used most commonly) does not support Unicode. I have a lot of zip files created by people on Windows that turn into nonsensical filenames when extracted on Linux or OS X.
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#39Not a very creative name. There is enough IT related products with the name Arc already.
I think it's a great name. The author probably has this as a binary living in his PATH so they can just type $ arc It might be obvious, but who wants a long or strange name when you're using a command line utility often.
When the name conflicts with another command line utility?
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#40Can the author compare and contrast to 'borg' which, it appears, has become the de facto standard for this kind of work ?