Lrzip-next and zpaqfranz

[demhademha]

Would it be possible to use lrzip-next and https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz to form incremental backups
Thank you

[pete4abw]

Hi @demhademha and thanks for the suggestion . I've looked at this. lrzip-next is not a journaling archiver. lrzip-next passes data already received to a compression backend. So attempting any incremental work after this is not possible. It's all or nothing. Using a front-end like tar or find and piping that output to lrzip-next is the way to go.

[demhademha]

How and why would find and lrzip-next be used together

[pete4abw]

I would not use it, but it's a possibility. Let's say you had a small group of files you wanted to compress, you could use something like

find . -type f -name 'forcompression*' -exec 'lrzip-next '{}' \;

with additional options possible. It could be useful if files are in different directories because find works recursively in directories.

Of course, lrzip-next forcompression* would work too, but only in one directory.