What is the difference between .arc and .tgz?
- Extension
- .arc
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Backup
- Compressed
- Developer
- Symantec
- GNU
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .arc on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia