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zip and backup techniques
Authored by: shacker on Nov 05, '01 10:22:40PM
FWIW, I wrote a pretty complete guide to using zip for backups at OSXHints' sister site, The BeOS Tip Server. The zip tip there includes lots of info on the various zip flags for creating incremental backups, examing archive contents without decompressing, etc.

Read it here.

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zip and backup techniques
Authored by: osxpounder on May 07, '04 12:23:16PM

Your link to the zip tips is dead -- I am hoping you or someone else sees this and knows where those tips can be found. I am puzzling over a zip problem in Panther right now -- a huge archive I created with OSX won't unzip with 3 different zip-compatible utilties I've tried so far. I'll be posting in the forums, here, with details on that and a request for advice, but long story short: a 4GB zip file created by OSX won't open with anything I've tried [except by double-clicking it in the Finder, to use OSX to unzip it].

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