Using 7zip: which format is recommended to use when archiving data, .7z or .zip?
Using 7zip: which format is recommended to use when archiving data, .7z or .zip?
Basically title. Just want to have a secure and futureproof archive of some important documents.
Thanks
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.