archiving

Distributing cpu-bound compression jobs to multiple computers?

The other day I needed to archive a lot of data on our network and I was frustrated I had no immediate way to harness the power of multiple machines to speed-up the process. I understand that creating a distributed job management system is a leap from a command-line archiving tool. I'm now wondering what the simplest solution to this t...

iPhone -- is initWithCoder an exception to the usual designated initializer design pattern?

I have a class MyClass. It has instance variables passedInVar1, passedInVar2, etc. whose values will be passed in from the object that requests the initialization. It also has instance variables decodedVar1, decodedVar2, etc. that will be decoded from an archive -- or set to a default value if there is no archive. According to Apple,...

Archive Parent / Child Table Hierarchy in MySQL

If I have a Parent and Child table in MySQL related by a foreign key, is it possible using a SQL statement to move certain rows from Parent and the related rows from Child into archive tables (e.g. Parent_Archive and Child_Archive) in an atomic manner? ...

extracting graphics from crawled sites (ARC files)

I'm working with ARC files that were generated by a Heritrix crawl. When I view these pages in the Wayback Machine, it looks like most of the graphics are being loaded from my local machine, so I'm assuming that those graphics are stored inside the ARC files. Is that correct? If so, what is the best way to extract the images? ...

I need to make a large directory with several sub-directories portable

I have a dataset contained in a directory that has about 30,000 sub-directories. Each of these directories contains a text file and another sub-directory. This sub-directory contains some number of text files (ranging from 0 text files, to hundreds). Many of my colleagues use this dataset, but as it is it takes at least 6 hours to tra...

Compression Assemblies for C#/.Net?

I know about SharpZipLib...but what else is out there? I'd like to make myself a file archiving utility that supports multiple compression formats. Any ideas? ...

How to do automatic data archiving in SQL Server?

Hi, I have table for which every day I want to do automatic archiving. So to be clear every day I want to take information generated during that day and move it into another partition (of same table) not in another archive table. That's because I want old data to be accessible with same query as new ones. I'm using SQL Server 2005, I'v...

extracting nested different types of archives from different folders

Hi, I have got an archive of many fonts but i have troubble extracting them all into one folder. i tried to write a long script for 3 hours now, it somehow breaks on a path issue. i tried piping like find . -name *.zip|unzip -d ~/fonts but it doesnt work. i changed so much in the script i wrote, that it is not really presentable :(. eac...

Creating and Extracting a tgz archive in Rails

Does anyone know how to archive a folder and its contained files as a tgz archive using Rails? What I would like todo is archive the contents of the folder and then have another script which extracts the same folder that was archived. All of the archiving techniques that I've come across are pretty complicated, I was wondering if there ...

Database Compacting and Archiving - MS Access Backend

Scenario: There is a legacy program (Not sure what language) and I have been asked to "Compact and Archive forms in the database". At the moment when the user opens the application it is taking about 2-5min to load around 27000 Records!!! My theory is that it is loading all the records on start-up but that might not be the only reason. ...

Monthly Archive posts by category-wise

I have set my monthly Archive page (Archive.php) as like this : Monthly Archive When clicking on any MONTH, the result will show all the posts for that particular month as below: Post title-1 ------ Category-1 ------ Author name Post title-2 ------ Category-1 ------ Author name Post title-3 ------ Category-1 ------ Author name Post tit...