Top 4 C Archiving Projects

libarchive

33 2,870 8.8 C

Multi-format archive and compression library

Project mention: The XZ attack and timeline | dev.to | 2024-04-17

29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.

pgBackRest

13 2,194 9.2 C

Reliable PostgreSQL Backup & Restore

Project mention: pgBackRest: PostgreSQL S3 backups | dev.to | 2023-08-10

This tutorial explains how to backup PostgreSQL database using pgBackRest and S3.

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
squashfs-tools

2 708 8.8 C

tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems
wget-lua

2 81 6.1 C

Wget-AT is a modern Wget with Lua hooks, Zstandard (+dictionary) WARC compression and URL-agnostic deduplication.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).