store consists of md5 content-addressed files store file contents: "AMEBAK" [version byte = 0] [compression mode byte] [file contents] compression mode: 'r' - uncompressed 'F' - deFlate compression should be attempted for all files, algorithms tested with the first 10MB of data. if the reduction is <5%, do not compress. this should make large high-entropy files have less overhead. directory contents: store/ - see above index.db - list of backup files backup files are stored in the store, and indexed in index.db. they are archive files, with the contents of each file replaced with a binary hash.