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Achive Details
On the Archive Details page specify whether the archive to add files to is new archive or an existing archive.
Add Files To Archive
New Archive
If creating a New Archive you need to specify the following details:
Archive Location
The file that the zip archive will be stored in. This is the full path and filename of the zip archive to be created.
Create Directory
Whether to automatically create the directory structure required to store the zip archive in the location listed in Archive Location.
Archive Name
The name to give the archive.
Archive Type
The type of zip compression and internal file structure to use for this zip archive. Some zip formats are more widely accepted than others. Select the option which best suits your environment.
Existing Archive
If adding files to an existing archive select the Existing Archive option and specify the location of the archive to update.
Options
Move
By default files included in to the zip file are left in their original location. Turn this option on to have the original files deleted.
Shred Method
When a file is deleted it can be fully or partially restored with fairly simplistic tools. This also goes for temporary files which are used in the compression process. Include the shred option to make any deleted files be overridden as well. Making it harder for them to be restored. There are four options to shredding;
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NSA - Overwrites files seven times using the NSA standard.
Compression Mode
Determines the level of compression, and type of compression to use within the zip file. There are five valid options, which are;
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Normal - Provides a middle of the road option using compression level 5. Medium level compression and time taken to perform.
Add Items
The Add Items page allows you to specify files and directories to add to the archive. If you are using the Update or Freshen options to modify an existing archive it is not necessary to specify items here.
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As an alternative to listing all the items in the Selected Items field you can create a text file that contains the list of items to add and use the Get Selected Items From Text File option to specify the items to add.
Add Items To Archive
Selected Items
A list of the files to add to the archive being created or updated. Wildcards can be used to include multiple files with a single line entry. Multiple line entries are allowed. Files will be include as soon as they meet the requirements of a inclusion line.
Get Selected Items From Text File
Instead of specifying items in the Selected Items list, select a file from which to load the list of included files from. Wildcards can be used to include multiple files with a single line entry. Multiple line entries are allowed. Files will be include as soon as they meet the requirements of a inclusion line.
Recurse
Whether to recurse down directories which meet the requirements for inclusion into the zip archive.
Path
Signals that each file included in the zip should be stored with its path information.
Directories
The same as specifying the path and recurse options together.
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