flatback - Simple Filesystem Archiver

A simple, space efficent, file system archiver.

Features:

• Largefile support
  
• Multivolume support
  
• Smart Per-File compression
  
• Per-File metadata checksumming (SHA1)
  
• Per-File data checksumming (SHA1) when data is present
  
• Format allows restoring of damaged archives even when compression is enabled
  
• Simple, space efficent, binary format
  
• Handles hardlinks the right way
  

Problems:

• Restoring archives not implemented yet
  
• Incremental backups not implemented yet
  
• Aborts on recoverable errors (will fix later)
  
• Not extensively tested