An archive file is one that holds one or more archived entries (files or directories) within it. Two examples of archives are ZIP files and UNIX TAR files.

The CAS Server identifies archives by their file extensions for file system crawls, or mime types for CMS crawls. The following archive types are supported in file system data sources:

See the following sections for support details on ZIP and TAR files, as well as an overview of how archive files are handled.