Eduardo Trápani wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I created a zip file from a backup, right before it was overwritten by a much 
> smaller full backup.  The zip file is about 6G and I have not found a zip 
> program that will open it (I tried, jar, 7zip, unzip ...).  I get errors, as 
> if it were corrupted, but then, with some tools, I get to see some of the 
> entries.  I'm running under Linux.
>
> I guess the huge size has something to do with it, but I'm stuck and I cannot 
> recover the files, that I do not longer have.
>
> Any ideas on how to move on?
>
> Thanks, Eduardo.
>
>
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Eduardo,

I use a program called IZArc (http://www.izarc.org/).  It works with 
large archives, but can be painfully slow (depending on the host 
system).  I have never tried it on an archive larger than 3 GB though.  
Hope that helps.

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