Archiving
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== Institutional archiving == | == Institutional archiving == |
Revision as of 18:02, 15 December 2012
(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)
Contents |
Archiving only
(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)
- AR file format (.a, .lib) -- Unix Archiver (ar) format as used by various compilers/linkers
- ARC (Internet Archive) (.arc)
- BagIt
- CPIO (.cpio)
- LBR (.lbr)
- Lynx (archiver) (Commodore) (.lnx)
- Mozilla Archive (.mar)
- Tape Archive (.tar)
Compression + archiving
(Multiple files => 1 file, makes it smaller. See Compression for formats that compress single files/streams, and Disk Image Formats for formats that capture the low-level structure of a disk)
- 7z (.7z)
- ACE (.ace)
- ARC (.arc)
- ARC (FreeArc) (.arc)
- ARC (Internet Archive) (gzipped form: .arc.gz)
- Apple Disk Image
- ARJ
- BACKUP (MS-DOS)
- BRU - (RSX-11M backup)
- Cabinet (.cab)
- DWC (.dwc)
- IMP (.imp)
- Jar (.j, .jar) => this is just a renamed zip file with some mandatory files
- LHAv (.lzh, .lha)
- PMA (.pma)
- RAR (.rar)
- Softlib (Softdisk Publishing)
- Spark (.spk)
- Stuffit (.sit)
- Stuffit X (.sitx)
- UltraCompressor II (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
- WARC (.warc, .warc.gz)
- Windows Imaging Format (.wim, .swm)
- ZIP (.zip)
- ZOO (.zoo)
Diff files
(containing only the parts of a file that have changed, so they can be applied to an existing file to update it; used for update distribution and incremental backups)
Institutional archiving
- OAIS (Open Archival Information System, an organization that does archiving)
- Submission Information Package
Self-extracting archives
(in addition, some of the other archivers are able to produce executable files for some platform which include the archived data and a program to extract them, and generally have the file extension normal for executables, such as .exe for DOS/Windows)
Transfer encodings
(convert binaries to printable ASCII for download; encode resource forks or metadata together with file, etc.)
(see also E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums for transfer encodings used in such media)
Uncategorized
- 7zX s7z
- AFA afa
- ALZip alz
- APX apx
- ARCFS - ArcFS ArchivePacker
- ArchiveLib GreenLeaf
- bh - BlakHole
- cfs - Compact File Set
- cpt - Compact Pro
- DGCA dgc
- dar - Disk Archiver
- dd - DiskDoubler
- DMS dms - Amiga Disk Masher compressed file
- F - Freeze/Melt
- GCA gca
- HA ha
- z - Huffman Encoding
- ICE ice
- IFHC - Amiga FileImploder Clone
- Inflate infl
- JCalG1 DataPacker (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
- kgb - KGB Archiver
- xp3 - KiriKiri
- LZX lzx
- ??_ - MS-DOS Compression
- pit - PackIt
- PAK pak
- PAQ paq6 paq7 paq8
- par par2 - Parchive File
- partimg - PartImage
- pea - PeaZip
- uca - PerfectCompress
- PIM pim
- qda - Quadruple D
- RK rk
- RZIP rzip
- ba - SCIFER
- sen - Scifer
- sfArk sfark
- shar - Shell Archive
- SQX sqx
- uha - UHarc
- hki - WinHKI
- rk - WinRK
- XAR xar
- YZ1 yz1
- zz - Zzip