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Zip Files

Automation Workshop includes the Zip Files Action—a powerful no-code tool for data archiving, compression, and encryption. Action supports multiple archive formats, various compression levels, secure data encryption, multi-volume archives, exceptionally large archive sizes, Unicode filenames, and more.

Create automated workflows in just a few minutes—process dynamic filenames and create daily, weekly, or monthly archive packages. Automation Workshop features the most comprehensive feature set of file zipping automation.

The Zip Files Action can create new archives, update already existing ones, as well as add new files to the archives. Enhance input parameters using variables from Triggers and Actions.

Features & highlights

  • Native support for multi-volume archives, Unicode filenames, and Large archives—for the most complex data storage scenarios.
  • Automatically zip files and folders in the most popular and compatible Zip archive format.
  • Supports Zip, Tar, Tar.gz, Tar.bz2, gz, and bz2 archive formats.
  • Protect sensitive files from unauthorized access with a military-grade encryption—Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
  • Supports creating new archive packages as well as updating already existing ones.
  • Process files based on their age—either new files, or older files, as specified.
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Usage examples

  • It enables automated workflows to create hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly zip archives. Embed a current timestamp (or any custom year, month, day, hour, and minute format) directly in the filename.
  • Schedule file synchronization between Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and DigitalOcean Spaces, where regular files are automatically zipped and encrypted.
  • Automatically zip files to save disk space and reduce file transfer times when uploading files to a remote server.
  • Secure sensitive files with strong AES 256-bit encryption before sending them in email.
  • Split archive into multiple volumes to store them on removable media like optical disks or memory cards.
  • Compress the whole folder into one file for simpler transfer.

Documentation

  • Archive · Provide files to compress, the archive type, and name.
  • Options · Choose compression level, encryption method, and whether to process subfolders.
  • Advanced · Enable Unicode filename and Large archive support. Split archive into volumes.
  • Exclude · Skip files based on a filter criteria using file wildcards and timestamps.
  • Attributes · Set file attribute pattern to determine which files will be added to the archive.

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