What is the difference between .arc and .tar.lz?
- Extension
- .arc
- .tar.lz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Backup
- Compressed
- Developer
- Symantec
- Lzip
- 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.
- "Tarball" (.TAR file) compressed with Lzip, a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain) algorithm, and therefore uses the compound file extension ".tar.lz;" often used for distributing linux software packages.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- Wikipedia
- .arc on Wikipedia
- .tar.lz on Wikipedia