Archiving can refer to the process of archiving files or the process of archiving data. File archiving is combining one or multiple files into one file or container. Data archiving is the process of relocating data that is no longer actively used to a separate storage area for long-term retention.
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How to crack a password protected zip file.
I recently downloaded a piece of software that came in a .ZIP archive, but the .EXE software inside of the archive had a password on it. The website that I would have gotten the password from closed ...
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Remove known password from zip archive without extracting
is it possible to remove a known password from a ZIP archive without extracting the actual archive?
I have some heavily compressed archives and want to avoid having to extract and rezip each of those ...
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How do I add files from a directory to a .zip-File using the 7zip command line?
I am using the 7zip command line to zip-up files. How can I add all files and subdirectorys from a folder to a zip file (.jar archive file)? I used:
7zip.exe a -t7z file.zip C:\folder
Thank you.
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Does software (similar to DVDisaster) exist which can create images and parity at the same time?
DVDisaster is an awesome tool for archiving things reliably, as it creates ECC in case of physical damage to the media. However, when using it for backup purposes it can be a bit awkward -- one must ...
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Backup solution: hash/checksumming and/or error correction
I'm trying to keep my data well protected with backups, using multiple hard drives (basically swapping the backup disk out every week). For checking validity, I was originally planning on md5summing ...
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How to archive using the shell extension and still exclude files with 7zip?
How can I exclude files from archiving in 7-zip's "Add to Archive" dialogue? I know how to do this from the command line, but it doesn't seem possible from the "Add to Archive" dialogue.
I thought ...
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How repair windows user profile after interrupted backup
I interrupted windows 7 backup, so after reboot, windows load in temp profile, in list of user's profiles, it marks like a archiving profile. Deleting profile status in reestr don't work.
How to ...
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opening files .arc
I need to open a folder with the extension of .arc .
I've already extracting the file with 7zip and also have tried it using IZArc extractor.But it seems to give me the output of many file (unknown ...
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seeking a tool creates space-efficient web archives
I am seeking a tool to space-efficiently archive a blog that is changing every day or even two or three times a day. I don't mean that individual blog posts change - not regularly anyway - I just ...
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Create a 7-Zip including only specified folder and excluding certain extensions. No scanning
I'm trying to create a 7-Zip archive that would compress a certain folder (only specified one!) while excluding a certain file extension. I've come up with this:
"PATH-TO-7Z.EXE" a archive.7z ...
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How to add files to specified folder in archive with 7zip command line
I have folders and files on my disk
C:\builds\main.exe
D:\components\a\testa.exe
D:\components\b\testb.exe
D:\components\c\testc.exe
D:\dependencies\abc.dll
Can I create an archive with 7z command ...
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Downloading Emails locally with Thunderbird
I am using Gmail (web interface) for sometime now, and have well over 20 labels and some thousand mails there archived to different labels in Gmail. Now I want to have a local copy of all my mails and ...
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Archiving old mail from IMAP to local disk in batch mode
I have an IMAP account with limited space. I would like to archive "old" mails to local storage, and I want to do it automatically (from cron) on my Linux system. I still want to keep the latest mail ...
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Midnight Commander not opening .zip files in centos 6.3
I just installed mc on centOS 6.3 server specifically to edit war files, however, it won't let me browse/open any archive files (zip, war etc)?
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Removind same *.tar.gz archives
I have crontab event archives to .tar.gz some folder every N hours. Finally I have collection of .tar.gz files. Now I want remove duplicating archives (created while target files stays unchanged) How ...
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AutoArchive this item now
Is it possible to set up a button that would perform the same action that AutoArchive does but do it now and only with the item(s) under selection?
I know it's possible to create a button to move ...
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OS X Finder-like unarchiving in Windows
I've gotten quite used to the OS X way of unarchiving, i.e. double-clicking on an archive file unzips it in the current directory. If everything in the archive is contained within a single directory, ...
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Looking to report on last file access for our archives
We are looking to generate a report that would let us know when files in our archive were last accessed. We are trying to determine which files can be moved to lower cost and slower storage devices, ...
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File extraction errors
I have a gigabyte 970 motherboard. A 64 gb SSD, a 1tb HDD and an AMD fx6200 CPU. Graphics AMD Radeon hd 6870. 8 gb ram. Nothing is overclocked, everything is stock. So I downloaded a few large ...
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Modifying the path inside an archive for extraction
I would like to change the path of extraction of a .tar.gz archive. The files are supposed to extract as ./1/2/3/4/files, ./1/2/3files and so on.
The .1/2 part of those is common to all the files.
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Archiving files from previous/old computers
I'm not sure that the title is very explicit, so I'll try to explain briefly my problem is/what I'm trying to achieve:
Like most of you, I guess, I have had several computers in the course of my ...
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pax change directory similar to tar
tar has -C, --directory DIR: change to directory DIR. Does pax have something similar? This can be useful for backing up directory structures/hierarchies in a relative fashion, such as ./sysconfig, ...
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File archiving software
We use KERIO mail server, as a secondary e-mail server. KERIO stores the e-mails in directorys*.eml.
For example:
User1 mail box stored something like this:
2009\msg\*.eml
2010
Calendar
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Merge 7z archieves
I've tried to download 7z archive twice and both times it wasn't downloaded completely. So I have 2 partly downloaded 2GB files and according to downloaded segments diagram in download manager program ...
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Is there a single catch-all-features tracked music format?
I have an archive of old(ish) tracked music in various formats - .mod, .s3m, .it and Commodore 64 .sid files.
Is there a single, well-supported, tracked music format with a super-set of the features ...
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Can you fix a corrupted 7z file?
So, I had a cd, with a scratch on it. The cd contained a 7z file. When I try to copy the file it gave me an error, so I used corrupted disk repair fixer and I managed to open the 7z, and view the ...
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Solution to archive and search PDF files on a NAS
In my company we have a lot of customer information saved in .pdf files which are stored on a QNAPย NAS.
I want to be able to do a quick search for information inside the .pdf, like Contract Numbers ...
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LogRotate use regex for filename
I have a custom logging class that creates a log for each instance of the process and adds a unique id to the log file name, example:
process.1234.log
process.1235.log
Also I can add a date/time ...
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Command /usr/sbin/chown failed with exit code 1 Error when archiving
I'm trying to archive a project to submit it to the iOS App Store, but keep getting this problem. I have already set yes to the skip install option, re-installed Xcode, rebooted and re-copied my ...
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Archive / compression formats or tools which support multiple file forks or streams?
Lately I've become interested in the ability of several filesystems including Apple's HFS+ and Microsoft's NTFS which support two or more data streams.
In Mac terminology these were most widely ...
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Error correction file system
I'm looking for a software solution for reliable data backup at home.
I'm not looking for an hardware solution, so I'm not looking for some home NAS with RAID support.
Instead, I would prefer some ...
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Utility that can add files to a volumed archive?
Is there a utility/archive format that works on windows, that can add files to an already existing archive that is split into volumes (like file.rar.001, file.rar.002)? And if the size of these new ...
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How to delete redundant folder?
I do a lot of archive extraction per day.
Archives come in two types:
archive / folder / files
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archive / files
When extracted, the first type ends up folder/files inside the base ...
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OpenID.net website is strangely behaving for 2 day now
On firefox 3 on WinXP, Win7 and Ubuntu when I try to access www.OpenID.net it asks me to save a gzip archive. Is that normal ? I need to look at the documentation, is their an alternative sources ?
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Export .wlmp file so it can be used on another computer
I'm using Windows Movie Maker to make a simple music videos with image slideshouws as background. Now I keep wondering, if I can somehow save the .wlmp file with inherited images so that it will be ...
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Outlook 2010 - performing a macro on all mail
I'm hoping this is a straightforward question - I have a working Macro that performs an action on the Inbox folder. I would like to modify this so that it looks at, and performs its action, on all ...
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Archive & autoarchive not working
I'm using Outlook 2010 w/ Exchange, and one of my folders has AutoArchive setup on it:
Archive this folder using these settings: Clean out items older than 2 weeks
Move old items to default ...
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“extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile,” won't open file
I have an 8.3 gig zip containing tons of telescope observation data, but I can't extract no matter what I try. I've tried Archive Manager, unzip, and tried this guy's fix: ...
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How to force “Inbox”, “Sent”, and “Outbox” folders to be listed at the top of Outlook archive folders group (above subfolders)?
I have just enabled autoarchiving in Outlook 2010, but I've noticed that some subfolders in my archive PST are in a different order to my original PST file.
Specifically, the "Inbox", "Sent", and ...
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In Outlook, how do I move e-mail to appropriate folder in Conversation view?
I use conversation view in Outlook 2010. I file away my e-mails into appropriate folders as I deal with them. As I get new e-mails in my inbox, do I really need to move the conversation into the ...
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One-click to create and extract .tar.gz files in Windows?
I'm using 7-zip latest alpha version (9.30) and I find it really inconvenient that, if I want to create a .tar.gz archive, I have to create a .tar archive first then add it to a .gz archive later.
So ...
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Outlook autoarchive quit working
I have Outlook 2007 on Win7 at work. I set up some of my folders to autoarchive to specific archive folders, and it worked. For awhile. Now it has quit working. If I chooser Archive, and select ...
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Selectively archive files across a directory tree in OSX/Command Line
I have been given an arbitrary list of files across a complex directory tree which I would like to archive for transfer and deployment. Is there an interactive tree tag-and-archive application either ...
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Finding a message in an archive in Kerio MailServer 6
I need to locate some emails from the archive. Kerio is set to archive emails on a daily basis, keeping the last 2 months.
From the mail log, I found entries like:
[09/Oct/2012 18:02:20] Recv: ...
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Software to burn multiple DVDs as an archive with auto naming and numbering
For years and years I've used an old program called Archive Creator for making CD and DVD backups of our work. Typically when we make these back-up sets there are around 50 DVDs generated. What was ...
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Create tar specifying execute bits
Is there a program on Windows that can create a tar archive specifying execute bits so that e.g. when adding a.py, b.txt, the former gets execute bit and the latter doesn't? 7zip sets execute bits for ...
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Local storage for Exchange mail - Outlook 2007
Is it possible to save offline copies of your mail on outlook 2007 running an exchange platform. I am not talking about creating a seperate folder and copying mail to it. With Thunderbird running ...
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Freeware (preferably open-source) tool for creating multi-file spanning archives as a self merging SFX
I have a large file I want to transfer using either Internet storage hosting, DVD-Rs or USB storage, which sometimes is limited to FAT file-systems (for example: mobile phones)
What I'm basically ...
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Programmatically backing up SMS on Android
I want to archive my SMS and MMS messages on my Android phone. I found a few applications that can do this and save the results to an SD card or email. That's nice, but not powerful enough for me. I ...
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How can I unarchive .IAB files?
I'm attempting to recover data for someone and was given a backup hard drive filled with .IAB files. I've searched Google and have tried tar and gunzip on OS X 10.6 but with no success.
How can I ...
