Which archive to choose to collect a lot of small files?

Question

System administration

DD.
I make backups of my PC to external hard drives, sometimes there are a lot of small files, with simple copying there are errors that the file paths are too long, I started collecting everything into uncompressed archives, which greatly accelerated copying, but I ran into another problem: I wanted to such archives add / delete files so that the archive behaves like a simple folder, instead of this it seems to rebuild the entire archive again = (.
Question: how can I organize an archive folder so that I can quickly edit (add, delete, rename).
Or maybe something else advise to solve my problem (a bunch of small files with long names)
thanks.

Answer 1

Why don't you like backup systems? From the free Veeam Backup or Cobian Backup. I fell out of love with the bike after I started using these copy solutions.

Answer 2

"Do you want checkers or go"? :)
I don't know the real solutions, but I can give you an idea to use something that would connect the archive as a folder or disk, like "True Crypt".
They write about possible ones here: superuser.com/questions/367540/tool-to-mount-a-zip...