A console backup/archive tool for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7. It uses the same backup methods as the NTBackup or robocopy programs and thus backs up all information and meta data on an NTFS volume. The main difference is that strarc is free and open source and produces stream archives you can store on tapes, disks or anywhere else or it can create the archive stream to stdout so that it can be compressed easily using stream compression tools like gzip or Bzip2. The command line switches and parameters are quite Similar to the *Nix tar utility and it can easily be used to clone an entire NTFS volume including everything, files, directories, their time stamps, attributes and security information, compression attribute, Alternate Data Streams, junctions, hard links etc. With this new 0.1.3 release it is even possible to backup the registry database files of a running Windows system. An information file called strarc.txt describing usage and including how-tos and other documentation is included in this zip file.
