Basically title. Just want to have a secure and futureproof archive of some important documents.

Thanks

  • BigResolution2160@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Depends on the usecase. For me I just needed a format to store lots of small files in, so I chose zip because extracting the individual files is much faster. 7zip encodes in large blocks so you needed to extract a block of lets say 512 MB to access a 42 KB file.

    But just like what the other guy said, if you need encryption or more options 7z might be your best bet. I don’t see the file types going obscure in 20 years.

  • CorvusRidiculissimus@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    They’ll both be readable for the foreseeable future. 7z has the advantage of better compression, but other than that they are pretty much the same.