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Rizpaq — a file browser for zpaq archives with version history.
Rizpaq is a program for working with zpaq archives and related formats. Unlike an ordinary archiver, it shows an archive as a folder: it appears in the tree next to your drives, you can go inside it, and files are laid out in real subfolders. Versions inside the archive are kept apart, so you can open the state of the archive as of any past date and compare two versions.
The program runs on top of the zpaqfranz engine. It is not a thin skin over an archiver but a layer that shows what the engine does not: the list of versions, the differences between them, and live progress.
Since version 2.0.0, Rizpaq has two profiles: Archive for working with files and Backup for running scheduled tasks. See the chapter Two profiles for details.
| If you want to | Read |
|---|---|
| Understand what it is and what it can do | About |
| Install and start it | Installation |
| Get to know the two profiles | Two profiles |
| Learn your way around the window | The window |
| Set up themes, language, engines | Settings |
| Open an archive, search it, look at versions | Working with archives |
| Test an archive, see details, compare versions | Testing and comparing |
| Open ZIP, 7z or RAR, and convert them to zpaq | Other formats |
| Create an archive | Creating an archive |
| Extract, including by dragging | Extracting and transferring |
| Set up scheduled backups | Tasks and scheduling |
| Look up a chapter or a key | Reference |
| Something went wrong | Troubleshooting |
Where to start
Your first archive takes half a minute: drag a folder into the window, press the create button, and that is all. There is nothing to install — the engines are already inside.
- Unpack
rizpaq-2.0.0-win64.zipinto any folder. - Run
Rizpaq.exe. - On first launch, choose a profile: Archive or Backup.
- Drag a folder or a file into the window.
The short version
Right-clicking a file or folder opens the menu of things you can do with it. The left pane is the tree of drives and archives (in the Archive profile) or the list of tasks (in the Backup profile). The status bar along the bottom always says what the program is doing.