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It doesn't make sense to wrap modern data in a 1979 format, introducing .ptar

by Signez on 6/28/25, 3:50 PM with 11 comments

  • by Bowes-Lyon on 6/29/25, 10:55 AM

    Great work! What I feel skeptical about, is the fact that plakar is not self-contained, but has a dependency. That gives me a pause. What I’d love to see is one single binary that I can just install and use.
  • by johng on 7/2/25, 6:53 PM

    This is really neat... plakar itself looks like an awesome backup tool. We use Borg now but I'll be testing this out.
  • by nanark on 6/29/25, 7:03 PM

    Great content!
  • by crsc on 6/29/25, 4:55 PM

    A truly fascinating article. Welcome to the 21st century. :-)
  • by compressedgas on 6/28/25, 4:41 PM

    So another WIM like format?