| 7-Zip |
7-Zip is an
excellent "Open Source" data compression tool.
If present on your computer (installed into its default install
directory), our backup routine will offer to use it to generate ZIP
backup files. It is used by our Transfer Facility,
and must be installed for our 2011 version so that it can run
its automatic software updates.
In our view, 7-Zip is a brilliant product (which is why we have
adopted it for our backups and software updates).
One minor anomaly we have discovered in 7-Zip, is that its
"Update" function changes the file date even when no files are
updated. This is not a big deal, but if you use 7-Zip to
make additional backups of other information stored on your
server (e.g. your job filing folders or company planning/admin
folders), and then use RoboCopy or XCOPY to back these up to
another location if (and only if) they have changed, then you may wish to
adopt a nifty little tool that was written by Steffen Wagner,
which resets the 7z file date back to that of the most recent
file it contains. You can download it from:
http://www.swiftease.de/en/7zDateReset.html
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