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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How to convert or repackage a folder back into docx
I have uncompressed a docx file (say file.docx) using 7zip to file/. (or alternatively, changed extension to .zip then extracted it)
I modified some images inside file\word\media\ and now i want to ...
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What compression options does 7Zip use when you add files with a drag-drop?
When you create an archive with 7Zip, you get a dialog showing you a bunch of compression options. However when you drag-drop some files into an already-open archive in a 7Zip window, you just get a &...
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Gmail - Adding a comment or tags to archived emails [migrated]
Can you add some tags and a description to a Gmail email when you archive it, to make it easier to find later?
In Gmail, when archiving an important email, it's not always straightforward to see ...
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Tar owner map when extracting
Tar has several options to affect how file and directory ownership will be stored in that tar file. For example --numeric-owner, or --owner-map. These options directly affect how the tar file will be ...
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archiving outlook messages to local windows HDD
I am using outlook via outlook.live.com in chrome. I have exceeded the allowed free storage. I would like to archive some of the older messages to my local windows HDD which should reduce the storage ...
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How to fix archiving folders by year?
Thunderbird stopped archiving by the year regardless the setting. It simply moves all mails to the archive root folder regardless of settings.
It last archived emails from 2022 correctly. 2023's ...
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How can I recreate an email folder from online web archives?
For reasons, I have misplaced a mail folder with a bunch of messages from a mailing list. Luckily - this list has an online archive:
https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/
is there any ...
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Download so many tiny files without archiving? [closed]
I want to implement a file server for a mobile app. This app requires so many tiny files to be downloaded from the server before it begins it's work And with updates from version to version some files ...
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How can I preserve creation dates when packing/unpacking 7z files?
From my tests, when unpacking files from a .7z archive, 7-zip preserves the "last modified" date but sets the creation date to the time of the file extraction (unpacking).
Is there any way ...
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Thunderbird : moving emails from a "virtual folder" to my "local folders" does removes those emails from server
I want to archive emails (IMAP) from year 2021 - which means I want to copy them to a local folder, and have them removed from my Gmail account.
I've setup a virtual folder on all emails from my GMAIL ...
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Our users complain that Exchange Online Archiving split their mailbox folders in two parts
We moved our mailboxes to Exchange Online and enabled the Online Archive. E-mails older than 3 years are automatically moved to the Archive.
When Searching mails in Outlook (desktop client and mobile),...
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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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Digital archive - solution with metadata
I am in charge of a small digital archive and I am trying to figure out how to manage it.
I have another archive of my owm, but since I am a photographer, I am spoiled by EXIF & IPTC.
The other ...
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How to unzip a multitude of .gz files with windows command prompt
I have a system that must accept and send data 24/7, and runs 3 instances of itself on 3 different virtual machines (nicknamed _1, _2, _3 for later use). In the logs the timestamp of the traffic is in ...
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Repackage Installshield CAB from folder
I'm trying to put AI upscaled images into the Product RED content pack for Windows Vista, I've managed to extract the Installshield CAB files in the installer into folders, and put my pictures in them....
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How can I extract all archives in the current folder using command-line 7-zip, without running the 7z command multiple times?
How can I extract all archives in the current folder using command-line 7-zip, without running the 7z command multiple times? Running it multiple times seems inefficient, and requires slightly ...
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Creating a WARC file using a Twitter archive
I've downloaded a Twitter archive that has the following structure:
twitter_archive
| assets
+-- fonts (.eot files)
+-- images (icons)
+-- js
| data
+-- various tweet folders containing images
+-- ...
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Any archive that doesn't use MS-DOS filetimes to avoid 2-second granularity?
Are there any archives for which don't store directory times in MS-DOS
format like in zip files so as to preserve seconds during extraction?
What I am trying to accomplish is zipping top level Android ...
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Increase robustness of 7z LZMA archiving?
I create backups of several PHP projects like Wordpress etc, which contain a huge amount of small files. Hence I zip them into one archive to make transfering and checking the file easier / faster. I ...
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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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SD Card as a long term archive media using redundancy of data
For me, the chief fear of using SD cards for backup is reliability rather than storage capacity. SD cards are known to offer relatively high storage for little expense, compared to CDs and DVDs. ...
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New files added to 7zip arhive are not protected by password
I have an archive in my onedrive for business directory that contains sensitive information that I keep password protected for extra security. The problem is, when I add new files to the archive ...
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Is there anything "bad" data preservation-wise about zipping a big dir of subdirs and tons of files?
I have a "gold backup base" directory tree of 48 GB of data containing "11 411 Files, 1 054 Folders".
Since USB/ROBOCOPY/Windows takes forever to transfer many little files to all ...
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7zip resume archiving after interruption ( command line )
I try to 7z the entire disk on windows, using 7zip. I do simple like this: 7z.exe a Z:\DriveBackupOct15.7z D:\
After a while process interrupted due to "System Error", because i accidently ...
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Copy entire drive in use per batches
I need to copy entire network drive (approx. 1TB) that is constantly in use to a remote location but in that remote location, no file can be larger than 1.3GB.
How can I achieve this?
I cannot first ...
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What does PowerISO mean by "unpacking" my image (*.img)?
I captured a bootable USB flash drive into an image (*.img) through PowerISO. When I open it in PowerISO, it indicates that it is in a sort of partitioning:
Then when I click on "Burn", ...
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Zip encryption, individual files or the whole directory/file tree of the zip archive
As an example fuse-zip shows a directory list, when executed on an encrypted zip archive. The individual files then cannot be read or written to. But the directory tree and the individual file names ...
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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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Best Way to Bulk Scan Center Stapled Booklets
I wanted to scan some A4-Sized Textbooks that had the centre stapled binding. There are around 60 (15-25 sheets each) of them that I wanted to scan as soon as possible. Is there any way I can scan ...
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How do I automatically make zip archives of every folder in a directory if the names are random?
I want to automatically save archives of Roblox versions. The Roblox versions folder path is "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Roblox\Versions". It normally only has 2 folders: one for Roblox,...
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Archiver for macOs that support file modifications in preview
I am a new macOS user and trying to get the same (or find alternatives) stack that I had on the previous platform.
Here is my question: Is there any archiver app available that could open zipped ...
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Archiving cloud stored files to speed up syncing
I have a lot of small files (50,000+) stored in OneDrive. Whenever I log into OneDrive on a new computer, it takes a long time for it to sync the files (without downloading).
Will it speed things up ...
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How do I get a better exploration for archives in ranger?
I'm not a fan of the default exploration for archives in Ranger, which resumes to showing the output of atool when opening the file.
I found out this avfs config, which allows you to explore an ...
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How do I get a better preview for archives in ranger?
I'm not a fan of the default preview for archives in Ranger, and I want to change it.
As an example, for .zip files, the preview displays the plain output of unzip -l <file>. Using custom ...
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Archive binary has reversed hex signature
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This is a repost of my StackOverflow question which was incorrectly asked, as it does not relate to programming.
I'm playing Bandit on OverTheWire, and level thirteen requires unzipping ...
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Gmail Outlook IMAP - archive
I have an IMAP folder in Outlook synching with my Gmail account. I need to delete a lot of email from Gmail to free up space. However, I need to keep these deleted emails in my Outlook.
I assume I ...
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Varying archive size under multi-threaded compression
When using 7-zip with 7z u -uq0 -ssw -mx9 -stl files.7z files (update-synchronize ultra-compression) I think I've seen a slight random size difference of the same archive triggering my backing-up ...
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Using Robocopy to copy files based on a word in the file name
So ok, I'm looking for a solution to scan a hard drive.
And look for folders in that hard drive that have #ARCHIVE#, and move said folders to a \nas\archive\
I know you can use Robocopy to copy files ...
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Can Archive Manager distinguish between wrong password and corrupted file?
I have two old encrypted RAR files. I know their passwords, but something interesting happens:
When I try to open each file in File Roller (Ubuntu's default archive manager) and enter the wrong ...
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Exchange mailbox archiving via Powershell to .pst file
I'm in a particular situation in which I have to free up space on some mailboxes present on our exchange server, both regular and shared mailboxes.
I remember that years ago, via powershell, it was ...
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fast archiving of multiple files (no compression / encryption)
I pretty often have to pack many small files into one big file for a cloud based archiving. I'm using WinRAR, but archiving 800 GB (even without compression) this way take a few hours. Is there any ...
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Why does 7za want to "replace the existing file" (unpacked folder structure wrong)?
Ok, so I want to unpack an archive using 7za; I'm in a MINGW64 shell of MSYS2 on Windows 10.
So, I first open a new, empty directory:
$ mkdir temp
$ cd temp/
Let's make sure - is this directory ...
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How do I create an archive with custom absolute paths?
I have a simple web app on Debian that I would like to distribute soon. For its update mechanism, I was hoping to take advantage of an archive's full path capability (such as RAR) by essentially ...
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Only one file is extracted from huge tar archive
I have a 124GB tar archive. When I run:
tar xvf archive.tar
I get only a 1.1GB file (which is one of the expected file). What happened to the rest of the files ? Is there a way to recover them?
I ...
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How to create password protected zip file in windows using cmd
I am looking to create a password protected zip file in Windows 10 using command prompt.
The closet I've got is this powershell script that creates a zip file without a password. I am then calling it ...
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What's the most robust data medium for long-term cold (shelf, archival) storage? [duplicate]
I've been looking, for some time, for a class of storage medium that's particularly well-suited to archival storage (also known as 'cold' or 'shelf' storage; ie literally leaving it unconnected from ...
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How can I compress a large collection of images together (for backup purposes) as densely as possible?
I have a fairly large (by personal use standards) collection of images. This is roughly in the range of 150k files of a total size of 200GB. It is by and large PNG and JPG files, each making up about ...
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How can we unlock a 7z archive (w/ password) without extracting it?
The question in the title. I am aware;
7z x blah.7z -p'mysecretpassword'
exists, but I wish to only unlock the archive - allowing my Python script to access it. Not extract it.
The reason I can't ...
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Add error correction information to piped tar stream
I'm using Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive to store backups on my Ubuntu machine. My workflow basically boils down to:
tar cf - $FILES | gzip -3 --stdout | aws s3 cp - $TARGET
I think this works quite ...
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How to make compressed rar or zip files of certain size in Linux command line?
On my Ubuntu machine, I'd like to create compressed archive files of 10mb size for Windows users. So that a 25MB myfile becomes something like:
myfile1.rar
myfile2.rar
myfile1.rar
I could not find ...
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