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And ofcourse on Wiki:

Backup apps on Wikipedia

Greez,

Mohammed

Hello Ianb,

Sound to me that you'd rather be looking for a proper backup solution, rather than an Archiver.
Have you ever tried Areca?
This app does about what you describe here. It allows proper browsing of your backup archives, and also allows easy retreiving single files from an Archive, allows also retreiving older versions of a file.
Allows stacking of several jobs, allows picking single files or directories and adding those to a joblist.
Allows choise of total, incremental, or differential archiving.
Doesn't allow nested archives as far as I recall so quickly, needs confirming however.
Although I must say that there is no need for nested archives when using this app.

I'd say, give it a try, allow it some getting used to as well (actually reading some manual material ), since to have to figure out the user interface, which is only a bit strange first time use . After that it's as easy as can be.

Greez,

Mohammed

And ofcourse, more important,

An overview on Archivers as well:
Archivers overview on Wiki

Just forgot to include one link:

File managers overview:
Filemanagers on Wiki

Hello IanB

You're right.
Izarc is an Archiver. It will allow you to browse in an archive.
The left pane here will show the tree with the archive itself as root directory.

If you want to browse outside the archive as well, you should look for a file manager.
Or for a combi of the both, then you should start looking at apps like:
- A43  Freeware  (can also be used portable)
- Explorer++  OpenSource  (portable app)
- Total Commander   Commercial product

Regarding comparing Izarc to Winrar, Winrar should better be better, since it is not free.
When making comparissons to other programms, one should compare with other freeware programs.
Under the freeware programs, I found it difficult to find a realy free program, which is also free for commercial use, like Izarc.

Hello IanB,

My biggest motivations for using Izarc were:
- Free, also for commercial use, since I use it on company PC's (WinRAR is ShareWare)
- "look and feel" simular to Winzip (which most users are familiar with)

I started to look for an alternative to Winzip because of the lack of LZH format in Winzip, (which is our company standard product, so our IT department doesn't want to invest in an additional archiver.....)
Our headoffice is located in Japan, where LZH is much used.
So I needed a free product that handles all.
That's how I ended up using IZarc. And was happy as well.

Must still be said that the review does offer a good example of usefull detail level for a review.
It will be a tough job matching that.

Well, if the Archiver review dates back to 2005,

It might be an idea to re-do the test, and see what the situation is by now.
For example, I have been using Izarc for a while now, and this program has come a long way in the last years. (as many others will have too.)

Nice test,

However, what were the versions of the apps, used in this test??
And how long ago was the latest update? (is the app still maintained?)
Without that info, the test doesn't tell me to much.

[IcoFX]

A handy Icon editor:  IcoFX 

  http://icofx.ro  Freeware 

[attach]

Feature list:
    * Support for Vista icons with PNG compression
    * Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / Macintosh
    * Support for alpha channel (transparency)
    * Batch processing for handling multiple files
    * Built in resource editor for creating icon libraries or changing icons inside exe files
    * Zoom icons up to 10000% for increased precision
    * Import image dialog, for creating icons from images
    * Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa
    * Open, save, edit and convert Macintosh OS X icons
    * Extract Macintosh icons from resource files
    * Snapshot window for creating overviews of the icons
    * More than 40 built in effects, including Drop Shadow
    * Use custom filters to create your own customized effects
    * Multiple language support
    * Resolutions up to 256x256
    * Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha (optional dithering for 2, 16, 256 colors)
    * Extract icons (including Vista icons) from 32 bit exe and dll
    * Import / export images (transparency also) from bmp, jpg, gif, png, jp2
    * Many useful drawing tools like brush, line, rectangle and more
    * Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools for retouching
    * Create icon from an image with a single click
    * Adjust the contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, transparency and color balance of icons
    * Change the dimension of images
    * Images can be faded using the fadeout dialog
    * Increase / decrease the opacity of an image
    * Easy shadow handling
    * RGB and HSB color modes
    * History of recently opened files
    * Window menu for easy window switching
    * Possibility to store favorite colors
    * Capture image from the desktop
    * Grid for precision work
    * Side bar for easy image switching
    * File Explorer window for easy file browsing and importing
    * Full drag and drop support
    * Sizable preview window
    * Multiple undo
    * Blur the edge of the brush
    * Rotate the image at any angle

If you are looking for something that runs from USB stick,
Toucan is a great simple straight forward app 
http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan 
Free software, opensource GPL 

[Areca]

Don't forget a regular mydocuments backup,

With "mydocuments" meaning to say, all your created work.

Greatest app for this:
   Areca    http://www.areca-backup.org   Freeware, opensource GPL
Does do delta and incremental backups, you can search within a backup, restore only 1 file from a backup, and and and . . . .

Another app for the more regular plain office user:
   Toucan   http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/toucan   Freeware, opensource GPL
Is a portable app, though can also run from your PC, when copied there.

Best regards,

MohKraats