Support for normal `.zip` compression
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Description
Hey, it would be really awesome if there was a way of creating `.zip` backups. Currently I use the default `gzip` configuration, and when trying to open the `.tgz` archive using 7zip there is a weird folder structure inside and I am not sure if this is supposed to look like this:
```
[backup-20251225-205201.tgz]
'- [backup-20251225-205201.tar]
'- [.] (Just a folder called ".")
|- [<...>]
'- [<...>] (all the files from the backup)
```
It would be really nice if I could just specify `BACKUP_METHOD='zip'` and this would create `.zip` backups.
Thanks.
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Research direction
Start by reading the existing backup-method handling and the current gzip/tar workflow. Add support for selecting zip through BACKUP_METHOD='zip', then run the existing backup workflow and verify that the result is a normally browsable .zip archive containing the backup files.
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- shell
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- devops
- Issue type
- Feature
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