I’m trying to backup the complete contents of a directory using:
pacomp64 -parcz T:\BACKUP.PA C:\STUFF
The contents of subdirectories of C:\STUFF isn’t getting backed up!
The sub directories are just stored as empty directories!
How do I achieve this ; show me a command line example !
Hello @Mili,
thanks for your help in getting my PowerArchiver CommandLine license (Re: License Code Not Working / Missing) and sorry for my late reply. I do check my spam folder regularly and couldn’t find a mail from support. Also, there was no mail in my backups or any mention of it in my email logs.
I have a question regarding my licenses in the hope you are able to help me:
While my account lists “PowerArchiver Select - lifetime free upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Toolbox English - Count 2”, this does not apply for PACL, which was included with my purchase. My account shows only PowerArchiver Select - 12 months of upgrades and support for PowerArchiver Command Line - Single User License.
Since PACL was included with PowerArchiver Toolbox, shouldn’t PACL also come with a lifetime license for 2 PCs?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Version:
PACL 9.00 Beta 2
What’s New since version PACL 7:
Updated to PowerArchiver 2017 engine Fully unicode interface RAR v5 (v4) support PAE2 supportLatest format support and all the various engine updates done in PA 2017.
Full support for .PA format with many different options and switches.
Download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2017/PACL900-170429.EXE
Due to the support of new PA format and all the changes needed for that support, we decided to move up version number to PACL 9. This is purely cosmetical - companies who purchased PACL8, have PACL9 now added to their orders. Users who have free upgrades for PACL8, now have PACL9 added as free upgrade (Business users with active select (pro/tbx), all personal users (pro/tbx).
Since we are finalizing PA 2017, we can also now spend a lot more time on PACL9.
Please check your bugs, and check .PA support as well.
Thank you! @Alpha-Testers
PA Team
ConeXware, Inc.
My OS: Windows XP Home Edition, SP3
The version number and date of the program: PowerArchiver Command Line v9.00b [Feb 23 2019]
The program not extracts one self-extracting file.
How to reproduce the problem
Download the SFX file by link: install.exe
Copy the “install.exe” file into the same location as the program is located.
Go to the DOS prompt. Make your PACL location the default drive.
If it is on the E drive enter the command E: and press enter. Replace “E:” with the appropriate drive letter.
Enter command cd e:<path name> to go to the location where the program resides.
Enter command:
As a result, the “install” directory will not be created and no
files will be extracted.
The “install.exe” file may be damaged but if you use a program such as 7-Zip or PeaZip to extract the files, the extraction process is successful. I want the PACL to also unpack such a file.
This problem is very critical for me. I often come across this. I do not want to resort to using other compression program.
… Michael
Hi,
there’s a problem with PAComp and file names with a leading ".\ ".
That’s nowadays a problem, since PowerShell auto complete will complete a file test.zip in the current directory to .\test.zip.
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The first command reports “All OK”, but test.7z is not created.
The second command reports an error, but the error message isn’t helpful at all. VSS doesn’t help anything if a program fails to write to a file. It’s for reading locked files… And the problematic file isn’t mentioned at all. By the way, there’s a typo, it should be “open”, not “opet”.
Only the third command (without ".\ ") works as expected.
The problem exists in the x86 and x64 version, it doesn’t matter if the archive already exists (updating) or not (creating a new archive).
would be nice to have czip support
Version:
PACL 8.00 Beta 1
Whats New:
Updated to PowerArchiver 2016 engine Fully unicode interface RAR v5 (v4) support PAE2 support Latest format support such as improved ZIPX, ISO, etc, etc, etc.Download:
http://dl.powerarchiver.com/2016/pacl800b1.exe
Please test it against your existing scripts and let us know. There will be some features added in future release as well as more testing.
This is first release, please test. Thank you!
I am Having Appcrash mid problem in my Pc.
Hi,
I’ve made changes to fix some problems with PAConv.bat:
1. Replaced the “” by () in the first two lines, so that it’ll work with command line arguments in quotation marks
2. Replaced deltree with rmdir, since deltree is unknown at least in Windows XP and later
3. Also replaced the del command, which left an empty $PATEMP$ directory with rmdir
4. Changed $PATEMP$ to “%TEMP%$PATEMP$.%time::=%”, so that no write privileges are needed in the current directory as the users Temp directory is used and that more operations will work simultaneous, as long as they are not started at the very same time.
5. Changed %n to “%~n” to allow parameters with spaces and quotation marks
1GB zipfile limit?
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Hello,
We zip files with PACOMP, no options. When the zip file gets close to 1 GB (1,069,482,487 bytes) (1 GB = 1,073 741,824) an error is reported when unzipping at 99% “Error in ZIP structure. Continue Y/N?” This message-box appears twice and then the program exits. No unzip file is left. This is on Win2003 SP1 compressed FS).
Smaller files (at least up to 966 MB (1,013,177,578 bytes)) do not show this issue.
Is there a 1G file limitation or work-around?
Thanks.
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Not sure about this.
PACL utilities are NOT Zip 4.5 compatible.This means that they are “limited” to less than 4 GB of data or 65,555 files.
As 1GB is less than 4GB :p
- how many files/folders comprise your data?
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Just a single file. The file zipped however, is bigger than 4 GB.
Do I understand correctly that files bigger than 4 GB are zipped with exit-code OK but can not be unzipped ?
the batch script does
PACOMP %.dmp %.dmp.zip && del. %.dmpThanks,
Denys
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Just a single file. The file zipped however, is bigger than 4 GB.
Do I understand correctly that files bigger than 4 GB are zipped with exit-code OK but can not be unzipped ?
I think that in this case the compression is failing - but no error message is generated, the “exit-code OK” is incorrect {a bug?}.
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Basically zip file is created, although it is not proper zip file. Zip headers are completly wrong so it does not work.
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Basically zip file is created, although it is not proper zip file. Zip headers are completly wrong so it does not work.
[Pedantic]
So are you agreeing that “exit-code OK” is incorrect?
:(
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I am trying to use PACL for managing my backup files. Since PACL does not support files in excess of 4G, I am looking at CAB. Is there any limit to the sizes of CAB files?
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[Pedantic]
So are you agreeing that “exit-code OK” is incorrect?
:(
[/pedantic]heh, old one… not, but before implementing its support for larger sized files, it will always bug out…
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I am trying to use PACL for managing my backup files. Since PACL does not support files in excess of 4G, I am looking at CAB. Is there any limit to the sizes of CAB files?
CAB size limit is 2 GB. PA 2006 has built in backup tool (PABL), with unlimited file size support for zip files.
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Unfortunatly the backuplite program doesn’t work for my process as I need to automate the process from a command line and build the directory structure dynamically. Failing that, does 7z (knowing I have to use the 7z command line utility) have any maximum file size?
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Unfortunatly the backuplite program doesn’t work for my process as I need to automate the process from a command line and build the directory structure dynamically. Failing that, does 7z (knowing I have to use the 7z command line utility) have any maximum file size?
7zips are unlimited. Future major versions of PACL will have 7zip support as well.
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Do you know when the next major version of PACL will be released? Will the next major verions support large files? That would be very useful to me.
Thank you.
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Do you know when the next major version of PACL will be released? Will the next major verions support large files? That would be very useful to me.
Thank you.
We are not sure yet. We do plan to implement support for botz 7zip and zip 4.xx standards (with unlimited size support).
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Is it a matter of weeks, months, a year? Sorry. I do not mean to be bothersome.
Thank you.
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this year for sure.
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Is it a matter of weeks, months, a year? Sorry. I do not mean to be bothersome.
Thank you.
p.s. just to make sure, never purchase anything until you have it working as you want.
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