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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Compressing with RAR vs ZIP
A lot of people are compressing files with RAR, sending compressed files with RAR and so on.
ZIP is more standard and works on all platforms. Windows users have ZIP included and Linux users have no ...
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What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac? [closed]
Anything built-in? (E.g. command line tools.) Any well-regarded software?
Update: I like The Unarchiver, but vote up your favourite, or add it as an answer if it isn’t there.
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What medium should be used for long term, high volume, data storage (archival)?
This question was inspired by How to store and preserve lots of data?
There have been another similar questions, but none with this type of criteria.
This is two questions in one.
How do you store ...
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tag based file organizer
I'm finishing professional school and over the years have acquired a pile of notes and articles that I'd like to hang onto. I'd like to add to them and create sort of an archive of article and files ...
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tar – extract discarding directory structure
unzip has a nifty option -j, whereby the directory structure of the archive is discarded, and all files are extracted into the same directory.
Is there a way of making tar work in the same way? ...
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How to split a zip file across INDPENDENT volumes
I have about 12 GB of image tiles made up of about 2 million files. I'd like to zip these up to make transferring them to a server simpler. I just plan on storing the files in the zip files for ...
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How can I evaluate the best choice of archive format for compressing files?
In general, I've observed the following:
Linux-y files or tools use bzip2 or gzip for distributing archives
Windows-y files or tools use ZIP for distributing archives
Many people use 7-Zip for ...
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How do you archive digital photos and videos?
Considering failure rate of digital media, hard disks/cds/DVDs, what is the best way to archive family photos and videos ?
I was thinking of having a couple of hard disks that have the same data. ...
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Winrar-like archive utility for OS X
I've been a Mac user for about 1.5 years and so far enjoyed the experience. But one thing I miss from other operating systems is the lack of compression/decompression utilities that follow the ...
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Are tape archives still used?
In this blog post, Raymond Chen makes a reference to files being on a tape archive. Are tape archives still supported by windows and/or used?
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tar-ing / should I use -C / . or just /
tar cvf backup.tar -C / / # or
tar cvf backup.tar /
produces an archive like
etc/
and gives warnings
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link ...
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How to remove password protection from compressed files
This has always been a problem for me for a long time. Let's see if any SuperUser can solve this:
I have a directory in which there are lots of password protected .RAR files of which I know the ...
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7zip Add Operation Not Supported?
When I try to add a new file to a zipped archive, I get the message "Operation not supported." Anyone know how to fix this?
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Recommend archiver software on OSX [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac?
Please recommend a nice software which will work on Lion. Default one is extracting immediately after I double click ...
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Is there an archive tool (that runs on Windows) that I can set the “execute attribute” in an archive file or zip file?
I have a small set of files I develop on Windows but need to extract and run on Linux. One of those files is a script, StartApp.sh. I'm packaging the files as a zip archive, passing it to my admin, ...
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What is the video format to use for archiving videos for long term storage? [closed]
I want to store some videos for long term. But I'm not sure what is the most compatible video format. I don't want to wake up one day in the future when computers use some totally different ...
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How do I create seperate 7z files from each selected directory with 7zip command line?
FOR %i IN (*.*) DO 7z.exe a "%~ni.7z" "%i"
Does the job for each selected file.
However I've got tons of directories (with files inside them obviously) I need to pack.
Say I have d:\dir1, d:\dir2, ...
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Expand rars like other archives (zip, bzip, gzip, &c) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s a good way to extract .rar files on the Mac?
What (free) program will allow me to double click on a rar and have it just expand everything into a folder, the way ...
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Universal command line unarchiving tool on a Mac
Is there some command line tool which allows extracting files from most known archive types? Something like StuffIt Expander, but without gui.
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when archiving on DVD, should i make a mirror copy similar to RAID 1?
I would like to archive photos. Hard drive (HD) are unreliable after 3-5 years and are not design for long-term storage. DVDs are much better.
From my research i found that TAIYO YUDEN dvd+r is the ...
