Heenan, Lambert
Lambert.Heenan at AIG.com
Wed Mar 9 15:51:49 CST 2005
"Needless to say, a given zip file may contain hundreds of large files by the end of the day, and the overhead of un-zipping and re-zipping each time I want to add a file would bring the rest of the system to its knees. The system has been functioning very well for the last six months, but yesterday a brief outage on the server that holds the archives illustrated the risk of not validating the successful completion of the zip stage. (All other destructive actions are deferred until the safety of the data has been verified.) " I believe that when you ask Winzip to 'add' files to an existing zip file is that it actually extracts all the existing files to a temporary folder, then it zips them all back up, including the additional files. That's when you see the 'Copying Zip File" message. So you really don't have any performance hit to contend with if you do this manually. Lambert