What compression / archive formats support compression between files?

Question

This question about archiving PDF files made me wonder - if I wanted to compress (for archive purposes) a lot of files, which are essentially small changes made on top of the master template (letterhead), it seems that a huge compression profit can be achieved when compressing between files.

Does any standard compression / archiving format support? AFAIK, all popular formats focus on compressing each individual file.

Answer 1

Multiple formats compress between files.

-.tar.gz;.tar , , .gz . , Unix..tar.bz2 , bzip2 gzip.

- "" (, RAR 7-Zip), , .

Answer 2

google open-vcdiff.

http://code.google.com/p/open-vcdiff/

RFC 3284.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3284.txt

Microsoft API - , - .

, , Bentley/McIlroy:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.11.8470

, , (~ 32k), gzip (100-900k), bzip2.

Google BIGTABLE - , .

Answer 3

LZW ( ) , , , , .

, , .