CPIO to TAR Converter

CloudConvert converts your archives online. Amongst many others, we support ZIP, RAR, TAR.GZ and 7Z. No need to download any software like WinRAR or 7ZIP.

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Formats involved

CPIO

– Unix CPIO Archive

CPIO is a compressor that uses ditto BSD utility to compress or extract typically in Unix CPIO. Also it uses the Java Common Compress API to extract. Using the Gzip compressor it creates backup files. It is widely used in several Linux OS.

CPIO Converter

TAR

– Consolidated Unix File Archive

Tar is an archive type file format that is used in UNIX based Operating Systems. It contains file header. It is a packaging file that can integrate multiple files in uncompressed format. TAR files can be compressed using several compression techniques like GZ, GZIP, Z, 7Z, ZIP and LZO etc.

TAR Converter