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* [[bar]] (SunOS 4)
 
* [[bar]] (SunOS 4)
 
* [[cpio]] (.cpio)
 
* [[cpio]] (.cpio)
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* [[Hamster archive]]
 
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
 
* [[LBR]] (.lbr)
 
* [[LBR (Commodore)]] (.lbr)
 
* [[LBR (Commodore)]] (.lbr)
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* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
 
* [[Mozilla Archive]] (.mar)
 
* [[pax]]
 
* [[pax]]
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* [[SeqBox]] (.sbx)
 
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
 
* [[Tape Archive]] (.tar)
 
* [[VIV]] (.viv, .big; used in Electronic Arts games)
 
* [[VIV]] (.viv, .big; used in Electronic Arts games)
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* [[ARJ]]
 
* [[ARJ]]
 
* [[Astrotite]] (.afa)
 
* [[Astrotite]] (.afa)
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* [[B6Z]] (.b6z)
 
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
 
* [[BlakHole]] (.bh)
 
* [[BRU]] - (RSX-11M backup)
 
* [[BRU]] - (RSX-11M backup)
 
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
 
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
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* [[CAR]] (a SAP archive format; also see [[SAR]])
 
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
 
* [[Compact File Set]] (.cfs)
 
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
 
* [[Compact Pro]] (.cpt)
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* [[HA]] (.ha)
 
* [[HA]] (.ha)
 
* [[HKI]] (WinHKI) (.hki)
 
* [[HKI]] (WinHKI) (.hki)
* [[ICE]] (.ice)
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* [[ICE (ICEOWS)]] (.ice)
 
* [[IMP]] (.imp)
 
* [[IMP]] (.imp)
 
* [[JAR (ARJ Software)]] (.j)
 
* [[JAR (ARJ Software)]] (.j)
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* [[MAFF]] (Mozilla web archive; uses ZIP for compression)
 
* [[MAFF]] (Mozilla web archive; uses ZIP for compression)
 
* [[NuFX]] (.bxy)
 
* [[NuFX]] (.bxy)
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* [[packARC]] (.pja)
 
* [[Packdir]] (RISC OS)
 
* [[Packdir]] (RISC OS)
 
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
 
* [[PackIt]] (.pit)
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* [[Quantum compressed archive]] (.q)
 
* [[Quantum compressed archive]] (.q)
 
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
 
* [[RAR]] (.rar)
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* [[RARC (Nintendo)]]
 
* [[RK]] (WinRK)
 
* [[RK]] (WinRK)
 
* [[S7z]] (.s7z)
 
* [[S7z]] (.s7z)
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* [[SAR]] (a SAP archive format; also see [[CAR]])
 
* [[Scifer]] (.sen, .ba, .xml)
 
* [[Scifer]] (.sen, .ba, .xml)
 
* [[ShrinkIt]] (.shk)
 
* [[ShrinkIt]] (.shk)
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* [[Zipx]] (.zipx)
 
* [[Zipx]] (.zipx)
 
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
 
* [[ZOO]] (.zoo)
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* [[ZPAQ]]
 
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)
 
* [[Zzip]] (.zz)
  
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* [[GDIFF]]
 
* [[GDIFF]]
 
* [[IPS (binary patch format)]]
 
* [[IPS (binary patch format)]]
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* [[JSON Patch]]
 
* [[RTPatch]]
 
* [[RTPatch]]
 
* [[Unified diff]]
 
* [[Unified diff]]
 
* [[UPS (binary patch format)]]
 
* [[UPS (binary patch format)]]
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* [[VCDIFF]]
  
== Filesystem backup ==
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See also [[Wikipedia:Data differencing]].
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== Encrypted or cryptographically signed archives ==
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* [[XIP]]
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* [[ZED]]
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== Filesystem backup and restoration ==
 
Formats designed for backing up disks, usually specifically targeted at particular [[filesystem]]s (but backing it up in the form of file structures, not raw sector images like [[Disk Image Formats]]).
 
Formats designed for backing up disks, usually specifically targeted at particular [[filesystem]]s (but backing it up in the form of file structures, not raw sector images like [[Disk Image Formats]]).
 
* [[BACKUP (MS-DOS)]]
 
* [[BACKUP (MS-DOS)]]
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* [[BlockHashLoc]]
 
* [[Partimage]]  
 
* [[Partimage]]  
 
* [[ufsdump]]
 
* [[ufsdump]]
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== Metadata formats ==
 
== Metadata formats ==
 
* [[Archive Team hostname file]]
 
* [[Archive Team hostname file]]
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* [[CDX]] (associated with web archives)
 
* [[DFDL]] (Data Format Description Language) - a file format for describing file formats
 
* [[DFDL]] (Data Format Description Language) - a file format for describing file formats
 
* [[Internet Archive metadata]]
 
* [[Internet Archive metadata]]
 
* [[mtree]]
 
* [[mtree]]
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* [[Portland Common Data Model]]
 
* [[TOSEC Naming Convention]]
 
* [[TOSEC Naming Convention]]
 
* [[Web Archive Metadata File]] (metadata for [[WARC]])
 
* [[Web Archive Metadata File]] (metadata for [[WARC]])
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* [[Bundle file (Linux)]]
 
* [[Bundle file (Linux)]]
 
* [[Bundle file (OS X)]]
 
* [[Bundle file (OS X)]]
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* [[Cabal]]
 
* [[Cross-Platform Installer Module]]
 
* [[Cross-Platform Installer Module]]
 
* [[deb]] (Debian package)
 
* [[deb]] (Debian package)
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* [[Inno Setup self-extracting archive]]
 
* [[Inno Setup self-extracting archive]]
 
* [[InstallShield CAB]]
 
* [[InstallShield CAB]]
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* [[InstallShield installer archive]]
 
* [[InstallShield Z]]
 
* [[InstallShield Z]]
 
* [[IPA]] (.ipa) => iOS app in archived form; actually in zip format
 
* [[IPA]] (.ipa) => iOS app in archived form; actually in zip format

Revision as of 17:18, 25 February 2018

File Format
Name Archiving
Ontology

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(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

See also: Compression, Error detection and correction

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Archiving only

(many files => 1 file, no compression attempted)

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)

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)

See also Wikipedia:Data differencing.

Encrypted or cryptographically signed archives

Filesystem backup and restoration

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).

Institutional archiving

Metadata formats

(see also Metadata, Bibliographic data)

Miscellaneous

Program/App/Applet/Installer specialized archive formats

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. In many cases, if you rename the extension to the appropriate one for the archive type involved, e.g., .zip, the file will open in the appropriate archiver, which is handy for extracting them on systems not compatible with the original executable.)

Transfer encodings

(convert binaries to printable ASCII for download; encode resource forks or metadata together with file, etc.)

See also the main article, Transfer Encodings.

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