Proprietary backup format?

  • Resolved michaelnorth

    (@michaelnorth)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    Quick question . . .

    This plugin ONLY supports your proprietary backup format? That is, there’s no support for industry-standard .zip or .rar files?

    If so, I’m running for the exit.

    I can’t imagine why anyone would want to use a unique format for their valuable backups, and be left with only one tool on the planet that can uncompress and make them usable.

    Sorry, but that’s just crazy to me, even if there’s some space saving. Disk space is dirt cheap, storage size is not a priority. Accessibility and reliability are far more important.

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  • Plugin Author JetBackup

    (@backupguard)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Here I will bring you some reasons why we prefer using our own format:

    1) The zip format has limitations that we don’t have. For example, a zip file cannot be larger than 4GB or have more than 65535 files.

    2) We have removed a lot of unused headers, making that way our file smaller and faster to generate or extract.

    3) As you already know, many of WordPress based websites are hosted in shared hostings that have small execution time limit for PHP scripts. We have figured out a way to surpass that issue thanks to our reloading mechanism, and that could not be possible if we didn’t have our own format.

    So we think these reasons are good enough to allow us create and use our own custom archive format. Also, we are also offering you an extraction software, so there is no issue for extracting your files (although we believe that manual extraction is not necessary at all). I would also like to point out that our SGBP Extractor is completely free to download and easy to use: https://backup-guard.com/products/backup-wordpress/doc/extract-sgbp

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