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Archive for January 3rd, 2008

CyberNotes: 7-Zip Command Line Backups

January 3rd, 2008
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Tutorial Thursday

The tool that I used for a long time for extracting and compressing archives is 7-Zip. It's free, open-source, and has a powerful set of command line options that is perfect for performing backups. And today that's exactly what we're going to use it for.

We're going to use a special version of 7-Zip that has no user interface whatsoever. It has to be used via the command

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