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.
Questions tagged [archiving]
643 questions
308
votes
8 answers
How can I extract .rar files on the Mac?
Is there anything built-in that does this? (E.g. command line tools.) Or are there any third-party apps?
Update: I like The Unarchiver, but vote up your favourite, or add it as an answer if it isn’t there.
Paul D. Waite
- 6,434
- 11
- 49
- 72
220
votes
18 answers
What is the advantage of using 'tar' today?
I know that tar was made for tape archives back in the day, but today we have archive file formats that both aggregate files and perform compression within the same logical file format.
Questions:
Is there a performance penalty during the…
MarcusJ
- 2,105
- 5
- 19
- 23
161
votes
6 answers
How to download a website from the archive.org Wayback Machine?
I want to get all the files for a given website at archive.org. Reasons might include:
the original author did not archived his own website and it is now offline, I want to make a public cache from it
I am the original author of some website and…
user36520
- 2,805
- 3
- 22
- 19
91
votes
21 answers
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 trouble with that file format.
The tests I did…
FerranB
- 1,067
- 1
- 15
- 24
72
votes
6 answers
How do I password protect a .tgz file with tar in Unix?
I'm using the Unix tar command as follows to tar up a directory and its files:
tar cvzf fileToTar.tgz directoryToTar
Is there a way to password protect the .tgz file? I've created password-protected ZIP files on Windows so I would assume Unix has…
c12
- 821
- 1
- 6
- 4
71
votes
16 answers
What medium should be used for long term, high volume, data storage (archival)?
This question was inspired by https://superuser.com/questions/374386/how-to-store-and-preserve-lots-of-data. There have been other similar questions, but none with the same criteria.
This is two questions in one.
How do you store financial/critical…
user606723
- 1,441
- 2
- 14
- 19
58
votes
5 answers
Extract a certain file from an archive with 7-Zip from the command line
If I have an archive, for example, some.zip that contains one or more files, how can I extract only one file (I know the name of the file) with 7-Zip from the command line in Windows?
Kiesoo
- 683
- 1
- 5
- 4
53
votes
10 answers
How do I reassemble a zip file that has been emailed in multiple parts?
I received 3 emails each containing part of a zip file. The extensions end in .z00, .z01 and .z02. (Emailed as such to get around the typical 10Mb attachment limit per email.)
I have put all 3 files into one directory.
I can use both 7-zip and…
Guy
- 4,007
- 12
- 44
- 56
53
votes
3 answers
How secure are password-protected zip files?
In modern zip utilities like 7zip, you can specify a password when creating a .ZIP file. But, how secure is this? What encryption algorithm(s) are used to secure password-protected zip files?
Justin Ethier
- 1,521
- 2
- 15
- 14
48
votes
6 answers
What is the difference between TAR vs CPIO archive file formats?
I am curious and did a bit of reading but still have questions.
What makes CPIO different than TAR? I was told in another question that tar is for pulling together many files into 1 archive which then is usually gzip'd or bzip'd.
Also I was told TAR…
AtomicPorkchop
- 3,244
- 14
- 38
- 58
46
votes
5 answers
How do I create separate zip files for each selected file/directory in 7zip?
This is the internal zip packer from Total Commander:
However I want to use my 7zip packer. When I select 5 files, I get 5 separate .zip archives for each selected file. How do I do that in 7zip?
Grumpy ol' Bear
- 6,271
- 12
- 58
- 78
45
votes
13 answers
How can I scan multiple pages into a single PDF?
How could I scan multiple pages into a single PDF on the Mac?
This is for document archival (mostly invoices and receipts). Ideally, the results should be somewhat searchable (but manually giving it proper filenames and putting it into appropriate…
Thilo
- 3,345
- 7
- 39
- 51
43
votes
1 answer
Extracting a tar.gz file returns, “This does not look like a tar archive.”
I have a tar.gz file and I want to extract it using terminal. I used following commands: tar tvzf ldtp_3.5.0.orig.tar.gz and tar -xvzf ldtp_3.5.0.orig.tar.gz. However, I get the same result for both the files:
tar: This does not look like a tar…
TheRookierLearner
- 687
- 3
- 8
- 11
43
votes
5 answers
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? Nothing in the man page seems to indicate so.
So, is…
Benji XVI
- 533
- 1
- 4
- 7
42
votes
3 answers
How to set password on already existing winrar archive and encrypt it also?
Not when creating new archive, but on existing archive. I would also like to know how to do that in other archiver.
Boris_yo
- 5,776
- 23
- 73
- 117