How much bigger will the TAR be than the RAR?

Potentially several times bigger — RAR compresses aggressively while TAR merely concatenates the files with headers. A 100 MB RAR of documents can unpack into a tarball many times that size. Pipe it through gzip or xz (.tar.gz, .tar.xz) when size matters.

When does it make sense to move RAR content into a tarball?

Whenever the files are headed for a Unix pipeline. Servers, CI runners, and configuration tools consume tarballs natively, and while every Linux distribution ships tar in the base system, RAR extraction needs the separate unrar package — frequently from non-free repositories.

Can a password-protected RAR be repacked as TAR?

Not without the password — conversion begins by extracting the RAR, which requires decryption. Be aware that the output loses all protection too, since the TAR format has no encryption of any kind; wrap sensitive results in GPG or an encrypted 7z.

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Converting RAR to TAR unpacks a proprietary RAR archive and repackages it as a standard Unix tarball — the format Linux and macOS toolchains expect for builds, backups, and deployments.

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Why convert RAR to TAR?

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