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PAKKA GUI creates archives with unchosen flags #97
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Current PAKKA need a lot of work 😄
In fact no I had virtually zero feedback for 10 years on PAKKA, now it seems some users are there |
I was trying PAKKA for convenience, to store backups of all files on a disk but due to the problems described I finally preferred to proceed via console. For now, however, I have noticed a problem for this use and a concern. Edit: Also, I noticed that the |
PAKKA is, in fact, an EXTRACTER. It is born to make mysql dump's restoring easier
In the latest versions it is possible to delete added versions, clearly this causes all data added after the time of "cutting" to be lost.
Symlinks are not supported at all, I started to implement a tar-like mechanism, but Windows is so messy and undocumented that I let it go
Actually it should. However, it is an option that I personally never use, so I do not check its functionality |
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So assuming an input.zpaq archive with 3 versions to which I want to remove version 2 I cannot proceed by doing: Therefore copying only the blocks referenced by versions 1 and 3 into "output.zpaq" ?
You can try to archive the following folder (after zip extract) with the following command: Both the file and the folder should have: But by extracting the archive (e.g. with PAKKA) only the modified dates are preserved. |
If you want to QUICKLY (aka: almost in no time) drop versions you can (from 59.4h) use the new crop command
You can crop the archive, for example, at version 2. You CANNOT delete version 3, keeping 1, 2 and 4 The crop command is used to delete versions added by mistake (sometimes it happens) or to delete old copies that are useless Maybe this will become "drop" instead of "crop". |
On -windate:
will show creation dates (if ever) Checking for bugs in progress... |
I was indicating that PAKKA does not seem to properly consider the options chosen by GUI for compression, in many cases despite not having chosen it or having just removed the checkmark on multipart backup mode, I have noticed that it still creates the archive that way. I then proceeded via command line. Basically this is what you do with a backup system but with deduplication, which unfortunately I have not found straightforward programs for such work on Windows. |
Then
And then
If I understand you want FOLDER date creation too, not only FILE date creation |
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Simply, you can't |
In the example described through that command the creation dates are also reported but trying to extract, even adding
Yes, I would like to see that preserved as well. |
Would it be possible to use the new drop/crop command to remove early versions instead of late versions? |
No, it is not I checked the issue of the date of creation of the folders. |
OK, please try the attached pre-release with -windate IF folders does exists Translation
This does not
In first case TWO objects will be stored 2020-01-01 01:02:03 (C) 2016-01-01 01:01:01 0 D Creation Date 1-1-2016/ In the second just the file - 2020-01-01 01:02:03 94 A Creation Date 1-1-2016/Test datestamps.txt I will not write a heuristic to automagically solve this situation, which is too complex and lacks real utility |
I confirm that it works even with the creation date of the folder IF I don't add |
I tried the last 2 versions of PAKKA GUI on the site (by clicking "Browse PAKKA builds," in settings) and trying to create an archive with, for example, a file and the following options:
force
longpath
store windate
store file hash, default
method 1
VSS
Use ADS
force zfs
force Windows
Removing the checkmark to make a backup
An error is shown indicating that only one hash file method should be chosen.
Trying to remove some of the options listed above the file is created but in backup mode (a choice I had disabled from the interface).
Also I noticed that it uses the built-in version of zpaqfranz, wouldn't it be better to be able to select a path to use a chosen version (or in the same folder) so as to avoid cases where the development of the two projects are not close?
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