Convert TAR to RAR
Our free online converter allows you to convert tar archives to rar as well as a variety of other formats.
Converting your tar file to rar is easy with these steps.
Converting your rar file to tar is easy with these steps.
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Converting tar to rar
Consolidated Unix File Archive
| Extension | .tar |
| Category | 🔵 archives |
| Programs | 🔵 Apple Archive Utility 🔵 GNU Tar 🔵 StuffIt 🔵 WinZip |
| Description | 🔵 The TAR file was specifically created in the UNIX sphere to sustain tape backup procedures. The file has been subsequently used to collect multiple files into a single file for distribution or storage and file archiving. TAR can also be said to be an application that can be used to treat TAR files. |
| Technical details | 🔵 TAR file means the collection of files into one, and this compression is usually not by default. Applications like gzip can be used to compress the entire TAR file. Therefore, the file extension is changed from .tar to .tar.gz if the compression is applied. However, the suffix would be based on the type of compression used. TAR files contain approximately 512 bytes and a file header. |
| Developer | 🔵 The GNU Project |
| MIME type | 🔵 application/tar 🔵 application/x-tar 🔵 applicaton/x-gtar 🔵 multipart/x-tar 🔵 application/x-compress 🔵 application/x-compressed |
WinRAR Compressed Archive
| Extension | .rar |
| Category | 🔵 archives |
| Programs | 🔵 7Zip 🔵 StuffIt 🔵 WinZip |
| Main program | 🔵 WinRAR |
| Description | 🔵 RAR is a proprietary archive file format that helps you archive and store important files as a group. What this means is that you can compress and distribute large files as a single file provided you converted them to the RAR file format. RAR file format has many characteristics and benefits that include:
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| Technical details | 🔵 How to create and how to open an RAR fileDo you want to create a RAR file? Some several applications and programs allow you to do that. Out of the list of options, the two most outstanding are WinRAR and 7-Zip. You only need to select the folder you want to convert and add it to the archive. If you want to open a RAR file, you can do that with several devices and programs, such as Windows Phone, Android smartphone, iOS devices, and Windows. To open your RAR file with Windows, simply install the RAR file software. Then, right-click the RAR file you want to extract, select the software you installed as the program you want to use for the extraction, and click on Extract Files. You can then select the folder where you want to store the extracted file(s) before clicking on OK. Which other formats RAR can be converted into and whyRAR files aren’t common as ZIP files. So, you have to use commercial software to open the files. Also, the encryption algorithm on RAR files isn’t as secure as those of ZIP files. To that end, here are some of the other formats and alternatives that can be used to open RAR files:
RAR files are usually converted into ZIP ones and vice versa. The latter format takes less time to get compressed so it is more convenient to work with if a user needs to deal with numerous archives. |
| Developer | 🔵 Eugene Roshal |
| MIME type | 🔵 application/x-rar-compressed |