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ADD YOUR RAR
Drop the RAR file into the box above or choose it from your device.
RAR → GZ / online converter
RAR to GZ Converter
Convert a RAR archive to TAR.GZ for Linux servers, scripts and tools that do not read RAR.
01 / how to
How to convert RAR to GZ
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CONVERT TO GZ
GZ is already selected. Press Convert and wait a few seconds.
03
DOWNLOAD
Save the finished GZ file. The original is deleted from our server.
02 / what you get
What happens to your data
Kept
- Folders (including empty ones) and file names in any language, such as Cyrillic or Polish, are kept
- RAR5 and solid archives are supported
- A standard .tar.gz (tarball) that opens with tar -xzf on Linux and macOS and with 7-Zip or WinRAR on Windows
Good to know
- RAR does not hand over Linux permissions or modification dates, so every file in the result gets today's date and no execute flag.
- Password-protected RAR files and multi-part archives (.part1.rar, .part2.rar) are not supported.
- gzip compresses less tightly than 7Z or XZ, in return it is fast and understood everywhere.
- Links (shortcuts) and special files inside the archive are left out. Only real files and folders are converted.
- Archives up to 300 MB are accepted. An archive that unpacks to more than 500 MB or 20,000 files is refused.
03 / formats
RAR vs GZ
RAR
A RAR file is a proprietary compressed archive format (from WinRAR) — common for software and media shared outside official channels, since it compresses tighter than ZIP but requires a paid license to create.
Used in: Software & media distribution · Older file-sharing sites
GZ
A .tar.gz file (sometimes called a tarball) is a TAR archive that's been compressed with gzip — the most common archive format on Linux and for open-source software downloads.
Used in: Linux software downloads · Open-source releases · Server backups
04 / more
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From RAR
Have a different file? Open the main converter — it detects the format for you.