PA 21.00.18 running on Windows 7 64 bit.
I made a big .PA file and thought I’d check it was made correctly with Menu / Actions / Test.
Discovered:
a) PA always issues a UAC prompt to do this!
b) PA always says there are many errors in PA files.
WinRAR 5 has a rather useful option in some cases, which is to be able to create an archive by replacing identical files with a reference to the first occurrence (hardlink) within the archive.
In case you choose to convert the file with PowerArchiver to another format, however, the resulting archive does not have all the files. It does not consider those that were present as hardlinks.
If you do a normal extraction of the RAR archive instead, even with PowerArchivier, all the files are extracted correctly.
When adding to a file archive, and selecting for example PA format, strong optimization method, extreme compression. In the Advanced Options section you change to Automatic, EXE Filter and PDF filter . You return to the main section and save the Profile. When you then reload the profile you do not have the Automatic options of EXE Filter and PDF saved there.
I noticed that instead if you change other options they are saved correctly (except for the Filter box values).
Also among the various changes to the advanced options you click the “Calculate RAM usage” button the value seems to be added to the previous one. You can see it for example just by clicking the button twice in a row, the value changes. Edit: actually after many attempts now it seems to write a stable value (it does not change with each click). Maybe a synchronization problem in the calculation?
Used PowerArchivier 2023 but there is the same behavior with the 2022
Opening split tar.gz file
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I downloaded a backup from my server that was tar.gz compressed and also split into 2. The file names are foo.tar.gzaa and foo.tar.gzab
PA opens foo.tar.gzaa but says that foo.tar.gzab does not appear to ba a valid archive. it also suggests too open the last files in a series, which, as far as I know, gzab is.
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Unusual filenames for split archives.
How did you “split them” originally? -
Yes, how the files are splitted? Using gzip or some other file-splitter utility?
… since, I see this for the first time.
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The backup utility on the the server splits the backup files if requested (various file-size otions). It’s a linux server and has 4PSA Client Backup installed on it. That’s all I know!
“foo” isn’t the actual name - that was too long to bother typing, the extensions were as they were generated by 4PSA Client Backup.
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The backup utility on the the server splits the backup files if requested (various file-size otions). It’s a linux server and has 4PSA Client Backup installed on it. That’s all I know!
Sorry, don’t know this utility.
@Moganero:“foo” isn’t the actual name - that was too long to bother typing, the extensions were as they were generated by 4PSA Client Backup.
Yes, I understood that, ‘foo’ wasn’t the strange bit - it is the extensions, .gzaa; .gzab etc.
I guess ( :confused: ) that it may be a simple file splitter, not a “compression” splitter. If so, maybe you just use a “Join” utility to combine them again into single tar.gz file.
Of course, copy them before trying this - just in case.
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This is not standard splitted GZIP archive, nor GZIP supports spliting. So I think this backup utility splits files in it’s own way - just file/size splitting.
You can create joined archive even under command line:
copy /b file.gza + file.gzb + file.gzc file.gz
and then open file.gz. Try this.
