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* [[AMG (compressed archive)|AMG]] (AMGC)
 
* [[AMG (compressed archive)|AMG]] (AMGC)
 
* [[ar (Haruhiko Okumura)]]
 
* [[ar (Haruhiko Okumura)]]
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* [[Apple Archive]] (.aar)[https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applearchive]
 
* [[AR7]]
 
* [[AR7]]
 
* [[ARC (compression format)|ARC]] (PC/MS-DOS) (.arc)
 
* [[ARC (compression format)|ARC]] (PC/MS-DOS) (.arc)
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* [[BRU]] - (RSX-11M backup)
 
* [[BRU]] - (RSX-11M backup)
 
* [[BSArc and BSA]]
 
* [[BSArc and BSA]]
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* [[BTSPK]]
 
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
 
* [[Cabinet]] (.cab)
 
* [[CAR (SAP)|CAR]] (a SAP archive format; also see [[SAR]])
 
* [[CAR (SAP)|CAR]] (a SAP archive format; also see [[SAR]])
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* [[Eazel]] (.eaz)
 
* [[Eazel]] (.eaz)
 
* [[EGG (ALZip)]] (.egg)
 
* [[EGG (ALZip)]] (.egg)
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* [[ELI 5750]]
 
* [[ERI (compressed archive)|ERI]]
 
* [[ERI (compressed archive)|ERI]]
 
* [[ESP (compressed archive)|ESP]]
 
* [[ESP (compressed archive)|ESP]]
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* [[FOXSQZ]]
 
* [[Freeze!]]
 
* [[Freeze!]]
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* [[FTCOMP]]
 
 
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
 
* [[GCA]] (.gca)
 
* [[Genus Graphics Library]]
 
* [[Genus Graphics Library]]
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* [[HA]] (.ha)
 
* [[HA]] (.ha)
 
* [[HAP]]
 
* [[HAP]]
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* [[HIT (compressed archive)|HIT]]
 
* [[HKI]] (WinHKI) (.hki)
 
* [[HKI]] (WinHKI) (.hki)
 
* [[HPACK (compressed archive)|HPACK]] (.hpk)
 
* [[HPACK (compressed archive)|HPACK]] (.hpk)
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* [[NaShrinK]] (.nsk)
 
* [[NaShrinK]] (.nsk)
 
* [[Now Compress]]
 
* [[Now Compress]]
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* [[NuFX]] (.bxy)
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* [[NuFX]] / ShrinkIt (.shk)
 
* [[OOP]]
 
* [[OOP]]
 
* [[oPAQue]]
 
* [[oPAQue]]
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* [[PAK]] (.pak) - various formats
 
* [[PAK]] (.pak) - various formats
 
* [[PAK (ARC extension)]]
 
* [[PAK (ARC extension)]]
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* [[PAKLEO]]
 
* [[PAQ]] (.pa6, .pa7, .pa8, others)
 
* [[PAQ]] (.pa6, .pa7, .pa8, others)
 
* [[PAQJ]] (.qar)
 
* [[PAQJ]] (.qar)
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* [[SARJ]] (.srj)
 
* [[SARJ]] (.srj)
 
* [[Scifer]] (.sen, .ba, .xml)
 
* [[Scifer]] (.sen, .ba, .xml)
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* [[ShrinkIt]] (.shk)
 
 
* [[SKY (compressed archive)|SKY]]
 
* [[SKY (compressed archive)|SKY]]
 
* [[Slim!]]
 
* [[Slim!]]
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* [[UHARC]] (.uha)  
 
* [[UHARC]] (.uha)  
 
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
 
* [[UltraCompressor II]] (.uc, .uc0, .uc2, .ucn, .ur2, .ue2)
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* [[VEM]] (Sony Virtual Expander]
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* [[VEM]] (Sony Virtual Expander)
 
* [[WARC]] (.warc, .warc.gz)
 
* [[WARC]] (.warc, .warc.gz)
 
** [[WACZ]] (packaged warc)
 
** [[WACZ]] (packaged warc)
 
* [[X (X1)]] (.x)
 
* [[X (X1)]] (.x)
 
* [[xar (Extensible Archive)]] (.xar)
 
* [[xar (Extensible Archive)]] (.xar)
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* [[Xidie archive]] (.zxc)
 
* [[XP3]] (.xp3) - used in [[KiriKiri Adventure Game System]]
 
* [[XP3]] (.xp3) - used in [[KiriKiri Adventure Game System]]
 
* [[xpa32]] (.xpa)
 
* [[xpa32]] (.xpa)
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* [[Courgette]]
 
* [[Courgette]]
 
* [[diff]]
 
* [[diff]]
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* [[dirpatch]]
 
* [[FidoNet nodediff]]
 
* [[FidoNet nodediff]]
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* [[FXPF]]
 
* [[GDIFF]]
 
* [[GDIFF]]
 
* [[IPS (binary patch format)]]
 
* [[IPS (binary patch format)]]
 
* [[JSON Patch]]
 
* [[JSON Patch]]
 
* [[LDArc and LDIFF]] (.lzd)
 
* [[LDArc and LDIFF]] (.lzd)
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* [[rename helper]]
 
* [[RTPatch]]
 
* [[RTPatch]]
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* [[Smartversion]] (.svf)
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* [[SmartVersion]] (.svf)
 
* [[Unified diff]]
 
* [[Unified diff]]
 
* [[UPS (binary patch format)]]
 
* [[UPS (binary patch format)]]
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See also [[Backup]].
 
See also [[Backup]].
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== Fake archiving ==
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Beware of these; they purport to be archivers but aren't really; you might lose any data you entrust to them. Could be somebody's idea of humor or malware.
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* [[OWS (fake compressed archive)]]
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* [[WIC (fake compressed archive)]]
  
 
== Institutional archiving ==
 
== Institutional archiving ==
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* [[Meta-Package File]] (.mpkg) (Mac OS X)
 
* [[Meta-Package File]] (.mpkg) (Mac OS X)
 
* [[Microsoft Update Standalone Package]]
 
* [[Microsoft Update Standalone Package]]
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* [[MRNZ]]
 
* [[NSIS]] (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
 
* [[NSIS]] (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
 
* [[Olive]] (executable virtual-machine archive of software)
 
* [[Olive]] (executable virtual-machine archive of software)
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* [[OS/2 PACK archive]]
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* [[OS/2 PACK2 archive]] (FTCOMP)
 
* [[Package File (OS X)]] (.pkg)
 
* [[Package File (OS X)]] (.pkg)
 
* [[PackageForTheWeb]]
 
* [[PackageForTheWeb]]
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== Self-extracting archives ==
 
== 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.)
 
(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.)
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* [[ARS]]
 
* [[COMPACK]] / BUILDSFX
 
* [[COMPACK]] / BUILDSFX
 
* [[LHA/LHarc self-extracting archive]]
 
* [[LHA/LHarc self-extracting archive]]

Revision as of 15:44, 12 March 2024

File Format
Name Archiving
Ontology

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(Lossless, for generic data + file archives)

Contents

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.

Versioning files

(contains multiple versions of files, often just saving the differences to save space)

(often a filesystem-level capability, such as ZFS and Btrfs snapshots and Windows Shadow Copy)

See also Revision control systems / code repositories

Encrypted or cryptographically signed archives

File splitting

(1 file => multiple files. Most file splitting utilities just produce raw file fragments, and don't have a native file format. But some use a container format, and some create a separate "control" file for metadata.)

Also, the two sorts of Horcrux, Horcrux (jesseduffield) and Horcrux (kndyry), are split-and-encrypted files.

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).

See also Backup.

Fake archiving

Beware of these; they purport to be archivers but aren't really; you might lose any data you entrust to them. Could be somebody's idea of humor or malware.

Institutional archiving

Metadata formats

(see also Metadata, Bibliographic data)

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.)

Software

Refer to Compression and archiving software.

Transfer formats

(encapsulate a system-specific file structure to make it compatible with foreign systems, file transfer protocols, etc.)

For low-level transfer encodings, see Transfer Encodings.

Uncategorized

See also

Links

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