Hi all,

I'm interested in creating backups manually so I can use a different compression algorithm. Based on the source code[1], it looks like backups are just created by adding each file (excluding upd.basex) in the database directory to a .zip file, so I could do the same using tar and my compression algorithm of choice. Is my understanding correct or am I missing some other logic?

Thanks,

Matt

[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/main/basex-core/src/main/java/org/basex/core/cmd/CreateBackup.java#L90-L119