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(convert binaries to printable ASCII for download; encode resource forks or metadata together with file, etc.) | (convert binaries to printable ASCII for download; encode resource forks or metadata together with file, etc.) | ||
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Revision as of 22:20, 23 February 2013
(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)
See also: Compression, Error correction
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)
- LBR (Commodore) (.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)
- ALZ (.alz) (ALZip)
- ARC (.arc)
- ARC (Commodore) (.arc)
- ARC (FreeArc) (.arc)
- ARC (Internet Archive) (gzipped form: .arc.gz)
- ArcFS (RISC OS) (.arc)
- ARJ
- BlakHole (.bh)
- BRU - (RSX-11M backup)
- Cabinet (.cab)
- Compact File Set (.cfs)
- Disk Archiver (.dar)
- DWC (.dwc)
- EGG (ALZip) (.egg)
- Greenleaf ArchiveLib
- HKI (WinHKI) (.hki)
- IMP (.imp)
- KGB Archiver (.kgb)
- LHA (.lzh, .lha)
- lrzip
- LZX (.lzx)
- PackIt (.pit)
- PAQ (.pa6, .pa7, .pa8, others)
- PEA (PeaZIP) (.pea)
- PerfectCompress (.uca)
- PMA (.pma)
- Quadruple D Archiver (.qda)
- RAR (.rar)
- RK (WinRK)
- rzip
- Scifer (.sen, .ba, .xml)
- ShrinkIt (.shk)
- Softlib (Softdisk Publishing) (.slb)
- Spark (.spk)
- StuffIt (.sit)
- StuffIt X (.sitx)
- UltraCompressor II (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
- WARC (.warc, .warc.gz)
- XP3 (.xp3) - used in KiriKiri Adventure Game System
- 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)
Filesystem backup
Formats designed for backing up disks, usually specifically targeted at particular filesystems (but backing it up in the form of file structures, not raw sector images like Disk Image Formats).
- Apple Disk Image
- BACKUP (MS-DOS)
- Partimage
- Windows Imaging Format (.wim, .swm)
Institutional archiving
- OAIS (Open Archival Information System, an organization that does archiving)
- Submission Information Package
Metadata formats
(see also Bibliographic data)
Program/App/Applet specialized archive formats
- Bundle file (Linux)
- Bundle file (OS X)
- IPA (.ipa) => iOS app in archived form; actually in zip format
- Jar (.j, .jar) => this is just a renamed zip file with some mandatory files
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)
- SDA (Self Dissolving Archive)
- SEA (Self-Extracting Archive]
- SFX (Self-Extracting Archive)
- shar (Shell Archive, in Unix-like systems)
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)
