On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Schlacta, Christ <aarc...@aarcane.org>wrote:

> This subject segues to a feature request fairly well. Can zwc or another
> client be made to integrate well with the existing Windows 7 and 8 system
> backup and restore interface? That'd be a dream.
>

ZWC uses the MS volume shadow service to take a snapshot of the volume.
Then they use the PKzip library[1] to zip it up (which is probably why the
source is not GPL).

It should be a relatively simple thing to do a similar thing using an OSS
zip library I would think.

Kind Regards,
Chris


[1] C:\Program Files\Zmanda\Zmanda Client for Windows Community
Edition\bin\pkzip.dll

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