Tar Converter
Convert to Tar format online, for free.
- From Device
- From Dropbox
- From Google Drive
- From OneDrive
- From Url
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How to Convert to Tar?
- Click the “Choose Files” button to select your files.
- Convert to Tar by clicking the "Convert" button
- Once the conversion finishes, click the "Download Tar" button to save the file.
Convert Any File
FreeConvert supports 500+ file formats. Simply upload your files and convert them to Tar format. Alternatively, you can upload Tar files and convert them to a different format. All from the convenience of one tool!
Best Quality
We use both open source and custom software to make sure our conversions are of the highest quality. In most cases, you can fine-tune conversion parameters using “Advanced Settings” (optional).
Free & Secure
Our Tar converter is free and works on any web browser. We guarantee file security and privacy. Files are protected with 256-bit SSL encryption and automatically deleted after 8 hours.
Tape Archive (TAR) is a Unix format that joins many files and folders into one file while preserving their directory structure, permissions, ownership, and timestamps. Importantly, TAR does not compress anything — it only bundles. That is why TAR files are so often paired with a separate compressor, producing the familiar .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, and .tar.xz combinations. TAR remains the standard way to distribute source code and back up Linux systems.
How to open a TAR file?
On Linux and macOS, the built-in tar command does the job: run tar -xf archive.tar in a terminal, or simply double-click the file in the desktop file manager.
Windows 11 can extract TAR from File Explorer and from the command line. For older versions, use 7-Zip, WinRAR, or PeaZip. Since a plain TAR is uncompressed, it is the same size as its contents — compress it to .tar.gz before sending it anywhere. You can also convert the file with our TAR to ZIP tool.
Developed by: Bell Labs (Unix)
Initial Release: 1979
FreeConvert.com can convert your Tar files to these other formats:
While this page can convert any Archive to Tar, you may wish to visit following Converter pages that only support specific conversions
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