What is the difference between .arc and .tar.7z?
- Extension
- .arc
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Backup
- Compressed
- Developer
- Symantec
- Igor Pavlov
- Description
- Backup file created by Norton software products, such as Norton 360 and Norton Online Backup; contains a backup of computer files created automatically by the software; may include personal user files as well as system files.
- This format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-7z-compressed
- Wikipedia
- .arc on Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia