{"id":1405,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583617-how-to-extract-rar-files-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:53:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:53:01","slug":"1583617-how-to-extract-rar-files-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583617-how-to-extract-rar-files-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to extract .rar files at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extract .rar files at Hostinger using SSH, since .rar extraction isn&rsquo;t supported through File Manager. If your hosting plan is Premium Web, or above, SSH is already enabled for you.<\/p><h3>Before you start<\/h3><ul>\n<li>Upload your .rar file using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1869114-how-to-upload-backups-with-file-manager-in-hostinger\/\">File Manager<\/a> (if under 100GB), or via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1869164-how-to-upload-backups-with-ftp-in-hostinger\/\">FTP<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/4466851-how-to-upload-a-backup-using-ssh-at-hostinger\/\">SSH<\/a> for larger files.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583245-how-to-connect-to-a-hosting-plan-via-ssh-in-hostinger\/\">Connect to your account via SSH.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-extract-your-rar-file\">Extract your .rar file<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Once connected, head to the location of your .rar file and use the following command:<\/p><pre><code>unrar x file.rar<\/code><\/pre><p class=\"no-margin\">Replace file.rar with the file name itself.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">That&rsquo;s it! Your .rar file will be extracted in a few moments.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b><\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If you have a Single or WordPress Single plan, you can upload .rar files, but you won&rsquo;t be able to unpack them. If you definitely need SSH access, you can consider an <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583459-how-to-upgrade-a-hosting-plan-at-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upgrade to your hosting plan<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Alternatively, you can use any of the following archive formats:<\/p>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz, tar.lz4, tar.sz. These are supported by our File Manager and can be extracted following these steps: <b><a class=\"intercom-content-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583613-how-to-extract-archives-using-the-file-manager-in-hostinger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to extract archives using File Manager<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extraction of archives at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583617-how-to-extract-rar-files-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583617-comment-extraire-les-fichiers-rar-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583617-bagaimana-cara-ekstrak-file-rar-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-BR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583617-como-extrair-arquivos-rar-na-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583617----rar--hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14997,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}