How to split a compressed file programmaticall y?

[Brian Roisentul]

Hi everyone,

I've been investigating for a while about this, but with no luck yet.

Does anybody know a way to do it?

Many thanks,

Brian

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Well,
if you load a compressed file into a byte array, you can create two new byte
arrays and store the first half of the original bytes in one, and the second
half in the other, and then save them to the filesystem. Are you asking "how
to do this?"
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"Brian Roisentul" wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've been investigating for a while about this, but with no luck yet.

Does anybody know a way to do it?

Many thanks,

Brian

[Brian Roisentul]

Thanks for your answer Peter.

I'll explain a little bit what i'm trying to do, because maybe it can
be done without zipping files.

Basically, i have a big file(it's a SharePoint site's backup, *.fwp
file) in one server, that is moved to a ftp folder every night, and
downloaded from another pc. These tasks are run automatically by a c#
process I made.

The time of download is of about 3hs, so I thought splitting the file
into pieces, and then downloading them using threading, will make this
process quicker.

I tried to split the file without zipping it, but when I merge it
back, it doesn't seem to work. If you want I can paste my code here so
you can see it, because maybe I did something wrong.

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What I would probably do here is to use either Winzip or WinRar with a batch
file (they have DOS companions that accept batch comands) with "Store only" -
no-compression for speed, to split up the files. This .bat or .cmd file can
be run on a scheduled basis through Task Scheduler.
-- Peter
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"Brian Roisentul" wrote:

Thanks for your answer Peter.

I'll explain a little bit what i'm trying to do, because maybe it can
be done without zipping files.

Basically, i have a big file(it's a SharePoint site's backup, *.fwp
file) in one server, that is moved to a ftp folder every night, and
downloaded from another pc. These tasks are run automatically by a c#
process I made.

The time of download is of about 3hs, so I thought splitting the file
into pieces, and then downloading them using threading, will make this
process quicker.

I tried to split the file without zipping it, but when I merge it
back, it doesn't seem to work. If you want I can paste my code here so
you can see it, because maybe I did something wrong.

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:46:33 -0700, Brian Roisentul
<br************ @hotmail.comwro te:

>Hi everyone,

I've been investigating for a while about this, but with no luck yet.

Does anybody know a way to do it?

Many thanks,

Brian

Take a look at the 7zip SDK ... it may allow you to programmaticall y
create a spanned archive

--
http://bytes.thinkersroom.com

[Brian Roisentul]

On 26 oct, 18:12, "Rad [Visual C# MVP]" <[e-mail] mwrote:

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:46:33 -0700, Brian Roisentul

<brianroisen... @hotmail.comwro te:

Hi everyone,

I've been investigating for a while about this, but with no luck yet.

Does anybody know a way to do it?

Many thanks,

Brian

Take a look at the 7zip SDK ... it may allow you to programmaticall y
create a spanned archive

--http://bytes.thinkersr oom.com

I'll try this, thanks.

But I just wanted to know something also...

Spliting a file and then merging it back must work? Even with
"complex" files' types?

I'm asking this because I tried it with a ".txt" file and it worked,
but then, when i tried with an excel file with vb code inside, when i
opened it, it threw me a message like something was wrong, but then I
could see the grid's content, but the vb code wasn't there any more.

The file's size was the same than the original and all.

Then, when i tried it with a SharePoint's backup file (*.fwp) and
tried to restore a site through command line, i got an error saying
the file was corrupted or something like that.

Thanks again,

Brian

[Brian Roisentul]

On 29 oct, 09:47, Brian Roisentul <brianroisen... @hotmail.comwro te:

On 26 oct, 18:12, "Rad [Visual C# MVP]" <[e-mail] mwrote:

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:46:33 -0700, Brian Roisentul

<brianroisen... @hotmail.comwro te:

>Hi everyone,

>I've been investigating for a while about this, but with no luck yet.

>Does anybody know a way to do it?

>Many thanks,

>Brian

Take a look at the 7zip SDK ... it may allow you to programmaticall y
create a spanned archive

--http://bytes.thinkersr oom.com

I'll try this, thanks.

But I just wanted to know something also...

Spliting a file and then merging it back must work? Even with
"complex" files' types?

I'm asking this because I tried it with a ".txt" file and it worked,
but then, when i tried with an excel file with vb code inside, when i
opened it, it threw me a message like something was wrong, but then I
could see the grid's content, but the vb code wasn't there any more.

The file's size was the same than the original and all.

Then, when i tried it with a SharePoint's backup file (*.fwp) and
tried to restore a site through command line, i got an error saying
the file was corrupted or something like that.

Thanks again,

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BTW, this is my code, maybe i did something wrong:

//Note: this.ext is a string property which represents the file's
extension.
/
*************** *************** *************** *************** *************** *
splitFile procedure
*************** *************** *************** *************** *************** */
private void splitFile( string path, string path_parts, long
size_part )
{
long parts=0;

try
{
using ( FileStream fs = new FileStream( path, FileMode.Open ) )
{

flength = fs.Length;

parts = fs.Length / long.Parse( size_part.ToStr ing() );

if ( parts 0 )
{
for ( int i = 0; i < parts; i++ )
{
string filename= Path.Combine( path_parts, "spfile" +
i.ToString() + this.ext );

using ( FileStream fsOut = new FileStream( filename,
FileMode.Create ) )
{
byte[] arrBytes = new byte[ flength ];

int offSet = ( int ) (size_part * i ) + ( ( i>0 ) ? 1 : 0 );
int count = ( int ) size_part;

int ret = fs.Read( arrBytes, offSet, count );

fsOut.Write( arrBytes, offSet, count );

arrBytes = null;
}
}
}
}
}
catch {
throw;
}
}

/
*************** *************** *************** *************** *************** *
buildFile procedure
*************** *************** *************** *************** *************** */
private void buildFile( string path_parts, long size_part, long
flength, string path_out )
{
try
{
byte[] arrBytes=null;

string filename_out= Path.Combine( path_out, "spfile_out " +
this.ext );

long parts = ( size_part != 0 ) ? flength /
long.Parse( size_part.ToStr ing() ) : 0;

byte[] arrBytes_out= new byte[ flength ];
for ( int i = 0; i < parts; i++ )
{
string filename= Path.Combine( path_parts, "spfile" +
i.ToString() + this.ext );

using ( FileStream fs = new FileStream( filename,
FileMode.Open ) )
{
arrBytes = new byte[ size_part ];//fs.Length

int ret = fs.Read( arrBytes, 0, Convert.ToInt32 ( size_part ) );//
fs.Length
arrBytes.CopyTo ( arrBytes_out, i * size_part );
}
}

using ( FileStream fsOut = new FileStream( filename_out,
FileMode.Create ) )
fsOut.Write( arrBytes_out, 0, Convert.ToInt32 ( flength ) );
}
catch( Exception ex )
{
throw;
}
}