How to create archives with SSH at Hostinger

Create archives with SSH at Hostinger by connecting to your hosting plan, opening the folder that contains your files, and running a single zip or tar command. You can compress separate files or a whole directory into a .zip, .tar, or .tar.gz archive.

Step 1 – Connection

First, enable SSH access and connect to your account using SSH. Open the directory, where the files and folders, which you want to compress, are located. For that:

1. Open your website’s root directory

2. Run ls command. If you see the needed files and folders, then you can go to Step 2

3. If the needed content is in a subdirectory, reach it by running:

cd path/to/files

where “path/to/files” is changed by an actual path to your files. For example, if your files are located in public_html/new/version1, then the command should be “cd new/version1”.

Step 2 – Creating an archive

You only need 1 command to create an archive. The command is different based on what you would like to compress and to which archive format you want to save it:

Archive of separate files

ZIP: zip archive-name.zip filename1.php filename2.php filename3.php
TAR: tar -cvf archive.tar filename1.php filename2.php filename3.php
TAR.GZ: tar -zcf NewArchive.tar.gz filename1.php filename2.php filename3.php

Where instead of “archive” write the name of your future archive, and after that – files which you would like to add to the archive.

Archive of the whole directory

ZIP: zip -r archive.zip DirectoryName
TAR: tar -cvf archive.tar DirectoryName
TAR.GZ: tar -zcf archive.tar.gz DirectoryName

Creating an archive takes some time until it’s finished, you will see this from the new line:

-bash-4.2$

This line means the archive is created successfully in the current directory.

More archive and SSH guides at Hostinger

• How to create an archive in File Manager.
• How to extract archives with SSH at Hostinger.
• Common SSH commands at Hostinger.