Open Source Archiving Software
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Browse free open source Archiving software and projects for Mac and BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Archiving software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Info-ZIP project
Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities
Info-ZIP portable compression/archiver utilities (Zip, UnZip, WiZ, etc.) -
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Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.
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LAME (Lame Aint an MP3 Encoder)
A high quality MP3 encoder
LAME is an educational tool to be used for learning about MP3 encoding. The goal of the LAME project is to improve the psycho acoustics, quality and speed of MP3 encoding. Note: we provide source code only! -
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PeaZip
Free Zip software and Rar extractor
PeaZip is a free archiver tool. The application provides an unified, natively portable, cross-platform file manager and archive manager GUI for many Open Source technologies like 7-Zip, FreeArc, PAQ, UPX. Create: 7Z, ARC, Brotl, BZip, GZip, PEA, TAR, WIM, XZ, ZPAQ, ZIP, Zstandard files and more Open and extract 200+ file types: ACE, CAB, DEB, ISO, RAR, ZIPX and more Features of PeaZip includes extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives (sfx), split files, strong encryption with two factor authentication, encrypted password manager, secure deletion, find duplicate files, calculate hashes, export task definition as command line script. -
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OptiPNG
Advanced PNG optimization program
OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information. This program also converts external formats (BMP, GIF, PNM and TIFF) to optimized PNG, and performs PNG integrity checks and corrections. -
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Catalog the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks.
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DAR - Disk ARchive
For full, incremental, compressed and encrypted backups or archives
DAR is a command-line backup and archiving tool that uses selective compression (not compressing already compressed files), strong encryption, may split an archive in different files of given size and provides on-fly hashing, supports differential backup with or without binary delta, ftp and sftp protocols to remote cloud storage Archive internal's catalog, allows very quick restoration even a single file from a huge, eventually sliced, compressed, encrypted archive eventually located on a remote cloud storage, by only reading/fetching the necessary data to perform the operation. Dar saves *all* UNIX inode types, takes care of hard links, sparse files as well as Extended Attributes (MacOS X file forks, Linux ACL, SELinux tags, user attributes) and some Filesystem Specific Attributes (Linux ext2/3/4, Mac OS X HFS+) more details at: http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Features.html -
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FLAC is a free lossless compressed audio format which supports streaming and archival. The FLAC project maintains the format and provides a reference encoder/decoder and input plugins for several popular audio players.
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Greenstone
Digital Library Software
Greenstone is a complete digital library creation, management and distribution package created and distributed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project. There are two major versions of the software. Greenstone 3 is under active development, and is recommended for download. We also provide maintenance releases for its forerunner, Greenstone 2. Featured download not what you're looking for? Click "Browse all files" to access binaries and source releases of both versions. -
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luckyBackup
...a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ windows users, note that luckybackup is originally developed for linux and the windows port (version) is under heavy development at the moment. Feedback is more than welcome and will be appreciated, but please consider the above before you provide a negative review. windows dedicated forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/luckybackup/discussion/2264489/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -
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Game Extractor
Open and edit the archive files used in over 5200 games.
Reads and writes archives used in many popular games. Great for mod development and game translations. Supports over 5200 games, with more games added through small plugins. Also shows file previews and converts them to different formats. -
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pngcrush and other tools for manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) and MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) files.
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restic
Fast, secure and efficient backup program
Restic is a backup program that is designed to be easy to use, fast, secure and efficient. It makes doing backups a fast and frictionless process, so you can backup your files every day if you need to. It supports backends for storing backups natively, including on the local directory, sftp server (via SSH), HTTP REST server (protocol rest server), OpenStack Swift, among many others. It also uses cryptography to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of your data. Restic supports Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. -
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A web based Metadata Catalog Server for data description and discovery. Supports both generic and geospatial data discovery. It implements international standards (e.g. ISO19115/19139/19119, ISO19115-3, DCAT-AP, CSW 2.0, OGC API Records). It originates from the United Nations and is used by many governments as geoportal software. Active development and discussion takes place on GitHub and OSGeo Discourse. You can also connect directly with the companies supporting the development. Source code available on github https://github.com/geonetwork/
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TurboPower Abbrevia
Advanced data compression toolkit for Delphi and C++Builder
Abbrevia is a compression toolkit for Delphi, C++Builder, Kylix, and Free Pascal. It supports compressing and decompressing PKZIP, Microsoft CAB, tar, gzip, and bzip2 archives, and can create self-extracting executables. On Windows it also provides Delphi wrappers for the LZMA, Bzip2, and WavPack SDKs, and PPMd decompression. Abbrevia also has several visual controls that simplify displaying and manipulating archives, including treeview and listview components. -
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OpenArchiver
An open-source platform for legally compliant email archiving
OpenArchiver is a comprehensive, self-hosted email archiving and compliance platform built to help organizations ingest, index, store, and search email communication data across diverse sources like Gmail, Microsoft 365, IMAP, PST, and more. It’s designed for scenarios where reliable, tamper-proof archiving and full-text search across both emails and attachments are essential for legal discovery, compliance, or long-term records retention. The platform combines a modern web UI with powerful backend services, including fast indexing, deduplication, encryption at rest, and asynchronous ingestion workflows, making it suitable for both small teams and enterprise deployments. Beyond simply capturing email, it emphasizes security and auditability with features like secure storage formats, file integrity verification, and detailed audit trails of user interactions. -
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zpaqfranz
Zpaq compatible archiver for Win, Linux, Free/OpenBSD, Solaris & MacOS
The Ultimate Archiver: zpaq fork with deduplication & versioning Forget pruning! Get forever storage of your files with thousands of versions. Far more efficient than Time Machine or ZFS snapshots - perfect for VM backups and permanent archiving, effortlessly handling TBs and millions of files. Optimized for cloud/NAS/USB with ultra-low bandwidth, military-grade encryption, and 1GB/s+ speeds on modern hardware. Why Choose zpaqfranz? ✓ Complete: Single/multi-file storage architecture ✓ Modern: SHA-2, SHA-3, BLAKE3, XXH3 and more ✓Paranoid: Antiransomware data verification with integrity checks ✓ Runs everywhere: TrueNAS, ARM-powered, even ESXi ✓ Lightning-fast: Multi-core processing + hardware acceleration ✓ Battle-tested: 15+ years of active development since 2009 Perfect for system administrators managing critical backups and anyone needing bulletproof archival solutions with enterprise-grade reliability. See it in action: https://github.com/fcorbelli/zpaqfranz -
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FullSync
Easy file synchronization for everyone
FullSync is a powerful tool that helps you keep multiple copies of various data in sync. I.e. it can update your Website using (S)Ftp, backup your data or refresh a working copy from a remote server. It offers flexible rules, a scheduler and more -
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Zip-Ada
A standalone, portable Ada library for .zip archives
Zip-Ada is a library for .zip archives. Full sources are in Ada and are unconditionally portable. Input and output can be any stream (file, buffer,...) for archive creation as well as data extraction. Task safe and endian-neutral. More information on: http://unzip-ada.sf.net Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/zipada Mirror: https://github.com/zertovitch/zip-ada/ -
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SaraB - Schedule And Rotate Automatic Backups. Supports the Towers of Hanoi, Grandfather-Father-Son, or any custom backup rotation strategy. Easy to use and highly configurable. SaraB utilizes the great backup program, DAR (Disk ARchive).
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CopyMastro
Simple application to copy files and folders.
Simple application to copy files and folders for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. -
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innoextract
Tool to unpack installers created by Inno Setup
Inno Setup is a tool to create installers for Microsoft Windows applications. innoextract allows to extract such installers under non-Windows systems without running the actual installer using Wine. NOTE: NEW VERSIONS WILL NOT BE UPLOADED TO SOURCEFORGE! Instead, use the official website at http://constexpr.org/innoextract/ -
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7-Zip-JBinding
Java wrapper for 7z archiver engine
Native (JNI) cross-platform library to extract (password protected, multi-part) 7z Zip Rar Tar Split Lzma Iso HFS GZip Cpio BZip2 Z Arj Chm Lhz Cab Nsis Deb Rpm Wim Udf archives and create 7z, Zip, Tar, GZip & BZip2 from Java.
