Extract: Functionality

(imported topic written by wnolan91)

  1. Extract should not depend upon BigFix client. For example, if I would like to run the extract manually from a desktop I should be able to do so.

  2. Extract should not require the .tmp file to be located in the __Downloads directory.

Bill

(imported comment written by brolly3391)

WinZip will open the tmp files.

Cheers,

Brolly

(imported comment written by jessewk)

You can also use the bfarchive utility. It is currently available at the following location:

http://software.bigfix.com/download/bes/util/BFArchive.exe

BFArchive usage:

bfarchive.exe -a

bfarchive.exe -x

(imported comment written by jessewk)

I should clarify that if you distribute BFArchive with your action, or cache it on the client using the 6.0 utility caching capabilites, then you can use bfarchive instead of the extract command. This will give you full ability to control the target destination.

(imported comment written by wnolan91)

Do you know of anyway to maintian the Dates associated with the files? Both the Extract and BFArchive re-dates the files. So when we do a Robocopy against the folder it has to recopy down all the files.

Thanks

Bill

(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hey Bill,

We adjusted this behavior in the BES Client version 6.0.15.7 (which should come out very shortly).

Unfortunately, you will need to upgrade your BES Clients to get this new behavior using the client “extract” command.

Ben

(imported comment written by jr6591)

Can a big123.tmp be extracted with the bfarchive command?

bfarchive.exe -x d:\besfiles\test\big59.tmp d:\besfiles\test2\

This doesn’t work. Do i have to use bfarchive.exe -a first? If so, then where do I use it as i am using the SW Dist Wizard to create the .tmp file.

(imported comment written by jessewk)

I think that should work. does d:\besfiles\test2 exist? are you sure the source file exists?

(imported comment written by jr6591)

I was doing this outside of bes as a test (just from a command screen) It didnt work. Do i need to run bfarchive via BES or can i test it as I have?

(imported comment written by jessewk)

You should be able to test it outside of BES. Are you sure you have the latest bfarchive (linked above)? Are you sure the destination directory exists and the source file exists?

(imported comment written by jr6591)

I was all prepared to use send screen shots when I realized that my directory had a space in it and I needed quotes. My brain is mush!

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Hey Brolly, did you say that you were able to view Bigfix tmp files using Winzip? Can you tell me how, when I tried using Winzip 11 it came back that it isnt an archive.

many thanks, PSisk

(imported comment written by brolly3391)

Hello psisk,

When I was on BES 5.x I was able to open the .tmp files created by the Windows Software Distribution Wizard using Winzip. I do not recall the version of Winzip.

I just tried it again on BES 6.x with WinZip 11 and you are correct. It does not work.

Regards,

Brolly

(imported comment written by cstoneba)

It appears that winzip is still not able to decompress a file that is compressed via bfarchive.exe. Is there any workaround? i want to see the contents of my .compressed files without using bfarchive.