Trouble Extracting Tar Files on cPanel File Manager

[Bowen Butler]

I have been trying to extract an 8GB tar archive. I am also trying to put the expanded copy, which appears to be 30GBs up over FTP, I am doing both because I first tried uploading using FTP, and couldn't finish the upload in over 12 hours, so I tried uploading the tar file and extracting it. After an hour or so, I thought it sopped working so I stopped it, then I tried it again, and it's 5 hours and it still wont extract.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

Do you have SSH access? If so, it's generally better to extract that large of an archive via the command line:

SSH Access - Version 70 Documentation - cPanel Documentation

Otherwise, you might encounter timeouts when using File Manager due to the size of the file.

Thank you.

 

[Bowen Butler]

Hello,

Do you have SSH access? If so, it's generally better to extract that large of an archive via the command line:

SSH Access - Version 70 Documentation - cPanel Documentation

Otherwise, you might encounter timeouts when using File Manager due to the size of the file.

Thank you.

I don't think I do, and I've been trying to upload the extracted version for 5 hours.

 

[Bowen Butler]

I don't think I do, and I've been trying to upload the extracted version for 5 hours.

I DO!! how do I extract using ssh

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

I recommend reaching out to your web hosting provider to see if they can enable SSH access on the account. Using File Manager to upload or extract a file of that size is unlikely to work due to internal PHP and memory limits configured for the cpsrvd process.

Thank you.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

If you do have SSH access, here's a link with commands you can use to extract the archive via SSH:

opening a .tar.gz file with a single command

Thank you.