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ADD YOUR TAR
Drop the TAR file into the box above or choose it from your device.
TAR → GZ / online converter
TAR to GZ Converter
Compress a plain TAR archive into TAR.GZ to make it much smaller for transfer and storage.
01 / how to
How to convert TAR to GZ
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CONVERT TO GZ
GZ is already selected. Press Convert and wait a few seconds.
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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
- File dates and Unix permissions are kept, so a script that was executable stays executable
- A standard .tar.gz (tarball) that opens with tar -xzf on Linux and macOS and with 7-Zip or WinRAR on Windows
- The contents of the TAR are not changed, only compressed
Good to know
- 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
TAR vs GZ
TAR
A TAR file bundles multiple files into one archive without compressing them (the name stands for Tape Archive). It's the standard way to package files on Linux/Unix systems, often combined with gzip compression afterward.
Used in: Linux/Unix file packaging · Docker build contexts · Backup tools
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
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From TAR
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