{"id":9,"date":"2014-03-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/7zip-basics\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T12:00:00","slug":"7zip-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/7zip-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"7zip Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">I recently needed to automate a compression of files on Windows 2008 R2 that I had been manually doing daily.\u00a0 The compression tool that is built in to Windows doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t like the command line, apparently, so I <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160513081624\/http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/download.html\">downloaded the free 7-Zip<\/a> file compression tool and it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s associated command line utility and followed the basic steps put forth on this blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160513081624\/http:\/\/www.dotnetperls.com\/7-zip-examples\" title=\"http:\/\/www.dotnetperls.com\/7-zip-examples\">http:\/\/www.dotnetperls.com\/7-zip-examples<\/a> to get it up and running.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Next, I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll set it as a Scheduled Task in Windows to run nightly and have one less manual step to perform.\u00a0 I\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll be posting more automation related things here in the future as this is one key to successful IT.<\/p>\n<p><em>(As a side note, we always used WinZip and it was great but 7-Zip is being used as a cost-cutting measure.\u00a0 I do not know of any limitations that this switch has caused but I\u00e2\u0080\u0099m sure there are some.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently needed to automate a compression of files on Windows 2008 R2 that I had been manually doing daily.\u00a0 The compression tool that is built in to Windows doesn\u00e2\u0080\u0099t like the command line, apparently, so I downloaded the free 7-Zip file compression tool and it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s associated command line utility and followed the basic steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkscrewconsulting.net\/ccgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}