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New Feature
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Minor
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the current plugin (founded in about 2014) is only capable of "ZIP" formatted archives.
in the meantime a lot more advanced options have been created.
these are namely: bz, bz2, gzip, 7z/xz, zipx - and others.
i personally feel like ZIP as it is used now does not even allow symlinks - so e.g. when storing library folders this is likely to store groups of large but many-fold identical files.
other than that i am not that sure if ZIP preserves (or is capable of preserving) all unix provided file system attributes correctly.
The ZIP format allows symlinks; see "UNIX Extra Field (0x000d)" in https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT. If you need to store fancier file system attributes, I think it would be best to create the archive file on an agent and store it as a single artifact; that way, you'd be able to copy it out of Jenkins with no risk of losing the attributes.