Features

Per-directory archive of directory contents

Original directory hierarchy is preserved for easy location of backed up files

No limit on directory hierarchy restoration, eg. you can restore only one path thats 3 levels deep

Wide range of compression support, including xz, bzip2, gzip and no compression at all

Parallelized compression support

RSync friendly as archives are only updated if need be, eg. new files are added to a new archive if old files did not change