Questions tagged [archiving]
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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Possible bug in 7zip - empty folders extract as empty files
I have a directory structure as follows:
Main
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|--empty_folder
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|--folder
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|--example.txt
I'm zipping it using the .NET ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory method (but I doubt this has anything to ...
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Can't extract file with non-ascii name from zip archive
I am using Linux Slackware 14, downloaded a zip archive with a file, containing Russian characters in it's name. Now when I try to unzip it in console, it prints an error and doesn't unzip:
bash-4.2$ ...
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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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How do you archive a channel in Teams?
I know you can archive a team but I was wondering how do you archive just a single channel so that it becomes read only and hidden from the normal views?
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What can I use to archive files, that anyone would be able to open?
I have files that I need to send to several different international locations. They're confidential files, so I need them to be password protected. Therefore, I was putting the files on a CD and ...
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What types of compressed archives does Microsoft Windows understand by default (Windows 10)
What file formats of compressed archives does Windows 10 natively know how to work with on fresh install?
There are many file formats for compressed archives. To name a few:
.tar.gz
.zip
.rar
.7z
etc
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Download and extract parts containing specific file from split 7z archive?
There's a file I want that's part of a very large, split 7z archive. Instead of downloading the entire 100gb archive, I'm wondering if it's possible to access the Compressed Metadata Block/End Header ...
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Creating a backup system with btrfs deduplication
I'm thinking about making my own archive/backup solution. This sounds like a bad idea, but I can't see another way to meet my requirements.
I have three Windows PCs I'd like to backup. They contain ...
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How to migrate emails to a secondary imap server preserving folder structure
The subject line could also read: "how to setup an email archiving system that preserves folder structure and tags".
I am reaching the quota of my main email provider (imap1) and I would like to ...
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Auto Archive Email for IMAP linked account
I have a user that has 11 GB of email. It is from 12 years of use. He is accessing his email via IMAP and Outlook 2010. When synchronizing folders it takes forever. I would like to speed up the ...
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Unzip multipart files created from Mac in Windows
This is how I created a multipart archive from Mac;
zip -r -s 1g archive.zip long\ folder\ name/
This creates files like archive.zip, archive.z01 and so on. Now I am trying to unzip this archive in ...
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"recompress" a 7z archive inline
I have a rather large (~500GB) 7-zip archive. I originally made it when I had more space available, and did so at rather fast, low-compression settings.
Now things are tight, and I'd like to try and ...
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Splitting tar archives and uploading them one at a time
I want to backup my systems to split tar archives with a script uploading them one by one. It has to create the split archive and then run a script. The script uploads the part and deletes it. This is ...
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How can I reliably archive the content of UDF formatted CDs and DVDs
I have been looking into copying the contents of old CDs onto mobile disks in order to save space and preserve the content, since rewritable CDs appear to degrade over time (at least the ones I am ...
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Can I password protect new files added to an archived 7zip file? When I add news files to an archive, they're not password protected
Currently I have a 7-zip archive that I made full of videos and pictures that are password protected. Now, I have more videos and pictures that I want to put in the archive, however when I do, they're ...
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Compress a folder with internal complex folders tree and UTF-8 mixed languages files and formats for archive
I have a cloud folder on my hard-drive which I want to archive, in-order to do so I would like to compress it using best of choice compressor for that task :
Complex sub-tree of internal folders with ...
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Decrypting tar archives with gpg -d, the -d flag does not work
My OS is Ubuntu 20.04.2 lts.
I am creating a tar archive from the dir noup1, that contains files and subfolders, with tar cf no1.tar noup1
Encrypt it with gpg -c no1.tar. So now I have a no1.tar.gpg ...
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Archive a big folder with large number of smaller and big files
I need to archive a folder from normal drive into tape in organization data storage and might retrieve them in the later stage. My scenario is
a large folder with size from 10 GB to 300 GB
The folder ...
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Automatically remove old e-mail messages with Thunderbird (from IMAP server only, not locally)
Given
IMAP E-Mail provider/server with storage quota
Thunderbird e-mail client
I'd like to automatically remove the oldest messages from the server only (and keep them locally).
But Thunderbird ...
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Cracking ZIP password from spanned volume
On October 10, 1997, I tried to free up some space on my hard-drive by off-loading them to floppy disks. I tried to reduce the number of disks required by using PKZIP to compress them. For some reason,...
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How to unsplit a split zip archive?
I just read this question
How to unzip split files on OS X
and it seemed straightforward enough, until I tried it.
To create and split a zip archive I used
$ zip -s 13 BW.pdf.zip BW.pdf
which ...
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Find other mails of the same thread in Thunderbird
I really love the threaded view in Mozilla Thunderbird. Because of this, I store my sent mails in the inbox, so I can move a whole thread to an archive folder in one drag and drop.
Sometimes I get ...
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Splitting a zip archive
I have a zip archive containing a big directory tree with many files. I'm using an application that does something with zip archives. The problem is that the application has a limitation on how many ...
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Recover incomplete DAR archive
I have a backup, at least part of it, in an incomplete DAR archive.
This means I have the first n of x slices, but not the end which would contain the catalogue.
$ dar -l mydararchive
Error met ...
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Search .zip files for sizes
I have a directory with many .zip files. I wish to search through them to match an uncompressed file size (I am trying to find which .zip my file originated in, and the name's been changed). IDEALLY, ...
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Moving emails with specific number in subject to a specific folder with the corresponding number
I get emails in shared inbox containing a number in the subject (like 9921635).
These emails are archived to subfolders, which are part of the shared inbox, that also contain this number.
Sometimes ...
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Cross-platform owernship of files in a .zip folder
I have a PHP app that creates a .zip folder out of files that are restricted to specific groups using ACL, then submits it to the user to download. Specifically, everyone is allowed to read them, but ...
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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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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 QNAP NAS.
I want to be able to do a quick search for information inside the .pdf, like Contract Numbers ...
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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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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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How to split a big folder into multiple standalone archives using RAR or 7-Zip console?
Example: I want to add a 100 GB folder to archives of 10 GB each using RAR or 7-Zip console on Windows. But each archive must be independent/standalone and able to extract without the other archives. ...
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How to download only bytes needed from stackexchange archive 7z files?
I am working on a doomsday version of stackexchange completely offline using the dump files in archive.org, some of the site files are rather large where it wouldn't make too much sense to download ...
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Does it make sense to add checksums to archived data?
We want to archive some data for long term storage on optical media (M-Disks).
Does it make sense to create checksums for all files beforehand and burn them alongside the data onto the M-Disks?
This ...
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Extracting a PE32 Windows executable archive in Linux
Is it possible to extract a password protected Windows executable (.exe) in Linux?
This is the file's type:
file.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
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Bypass `-C` flag when unzipping tar archive
I have a .tar.gz archive with the following structure:
opt/client/py/utils/mappings/templates/config.json
opt/
opt/mag/
opt/mag/sw/
opt/mag/sw/apps/
opt/mag/sw/apps/service/
opt/mag/etc/
opt/mag/etc/...
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7-Zip Warning: "There are some data after the end of the payload data"
I just got this error message while trying to extract a rar archive that is split in several parts using 7-Zip:
1 C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\FileName.part1.rar
Warnings:
There are some data ...
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How can I best use the compression options of 7z?
I have about 900 GB of uncompressed SQL dumps which have a very large amount of common data. I've been using 7z with the -mx=9 option because I care much more about the size of the archive than how ...
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Dictionary Size and Compression Method
I have knowledge about archiving, since I already try it so many times in a basic way just right click and add to archive then press ok, but it is my first time to modify it using the settings.
I want ...
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How to delete a file inside a zip archive without decompressing?
I have a large zip file and I can't decompress it because I don't have enough space so I am going through all the files inside and first copying them to an outer folder and then deleting them. I can ...
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7zip - Add item in a right click menu for timestamped archive
Is it possible to add an item in 7zip right click menu. Every once in a while, I would like to make a backup of the file/folder and would like to add today's time stamp. For example,
sample_project ...
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Is it possible to partially extract a zipped file?
Is it possible to extract only part of a file from a .zip archive?
The file is plain text, and it is much bigger than available disk space. Is it possible to extract it in parts?
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How to unpack archives on double click?
On macOS, double clicking a zip archive immediately unpacks it into a folder with the same name and then opens the folder. There are third party apps that do the same for other types of archives as ...
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Can we enforce Windows 10 app to retain all old emails (not archiving them)?
I migrated to the native email app in Windows 10 in order to reach emails from my new employers server/exchange. The account is of Outlook type.
It was convenient to set up and I used it for a few ...
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Powershell script to compress all child directories and move to archive; keep file structure. Delete originals
I have a task where I need to compress all child directories (child is each day of a month) within each sub-parent directory (Month) and move to an archive folder. Then delete the originals. Also an ...
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How to fix a corrupted 7z archive?
I have a corrupted 7zip file , the sources have been deleted
and i tried to understand https://7-zip.org/recover.html but I couldn't fix them:
When I tried to extract it shows:
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Reliable USB Flash Media
Q: What type of flash media has the best long-term storage reliability?
Details:
I'm aware that all flash media has varied limits on lifetime write cycles, and that there are better media for long ...
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7zip archives become corrupted over time
I have dedicated HDD drive for storing data. To save space, I randomly over the period of last 5 years archived some folders with 7zip.
When recently I needed access to contents of these archives, ...
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So I'm trying to convert some .cbr files to .cbz
And I've been trying to reverse engineer it through looking at the old files I've got. What I've got thusfar is
ren *.cbr *.rar
for .rar %%X in (*) do "c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "%%X\" ...