Questions tagged [archiving]
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.
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Thunderbird : moving emails from a "virtual folder" to my "local folders" does removes those emails from server
I want to archive emails (IMAP) from year 2021 - which means I want to copy them to a local folder, and have them removed from my Gmail account.
I've setup a virtual folder on all emails from my GMAIL ...
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Does it make sense to add checksums to archived data?
We want to archive some data for long term storage on optical media (M-Disks).
Does it make sense to create checksums for all files beforehand and burn them alongside the data onto the M-Disks?
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Digital archive - solution with metadata
I am in charge of a small digital archive and I am trying to figure out how to manage it.
I have another archive of my owm, but since I am a photographer, I am spoiled by EXIF & IPTC.
The other ...
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How to unzip a multitude of .gz files with windows command prompt
I have a system that must accept and send data 24/7, and runs 3 instances of itself on 3 different virtual machines (nicknamed _1, _2, _3 for later use). In the logs the timestamp of the traffic is in ...
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How can I extract all archives in the current folder using command-line 7-zip, without running the 7z command multiple times?
How can I extract all archives in the current folder using command-line 7-zip, without running the 7z command multiple times? Running it multiple times seems inefficient, and requires slightly ...
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Creating a WARC file using a Twitter archive
I've downloaded a Twitter archive that has the following structure:
twitter_archive
| assets
+-- fonts (.eot files)
+-- images (icons)
+-- js
| data
+-- various tweet folders containing images
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Any archive that doesn't use MS-DOS filetimes to avoid 2-second granularity?
Are there any archives for which don't store directory times in MS-DOS
format like in zip files so as to preserve seconds during extraction?
What I am trying to accomplish is zipping top level Android ...
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Increase robustness of 7z LZMA archiving?
I create backups of several PHP projects like Wordpress etc, which contain a huge amount of small files. Hence I zip them into one archive to make transfering and checking the file easier / faster. I ...
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Extracting a PE32 Windows executable archive in Linux
Is it possible to extract a password protected Windows executable (.exe) in Linux?
This is the file's type:
file.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
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SD Card as a long term archive media using redundancy of data
For me, the chief fear of using SD cards for backup is reliability rather than storage capacity. SD cards are known to offer relatively high storage for little expense, compared to CDs and DVDs. ...
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New files added to 7zip arhive are not protected by password
I have an archive in my onedrive for business directory that contains sensitive information that I keep password protected for extra security. The problem is, when I add new files to the archive ...
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Is there anything "bad" data preservation-wise about zipping a big dir of subdirs and tons of files?
I have a "gold backup base" directory tree of 48 GB of data containing "11 411 Files, 1 054 Folders".
Since USB/ROBOCOPY/Windows takes forever to transfer many little files to all ...
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7zip resume archiving after interruption ( command line )
I try to 7z the entire disk on windows, using 7zip. I do simple like this: 7z.exe a Z:\DriveBackupOct15.7z D:\
After a while process interrupted due to "System Error", because i accidently ...
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Copy entire drive in use per batches
I need to copy entire network drive (approx. 1TB) that is constantly in use to a remote location but in that remote location, no file can be larger than 1.3GB.
How can I achieve this?
I cannot first ...
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What does PowerISO mean by "unpacking" my image (*.img)?
I captured a bootable USB flash drive into an image (*.img) through PowerISO. When I open it in PowerISO, it indicates that it is in a sort of partitioning:
Then when I click on "Burn", ...
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