How do I extract a tar.gz file using FTP?

I have a tar.gz file that is 900MB. I need to extract it, but the file manager will take forever (by forever I mean at least 2 days, uploading itself took 5-6 hours).

Anyone knows how to extract a tar.gz file using FTP? Or any other ways you may know of besides SSH.

 

You can't with FTP.

 

Then your file manager might have trouble. Uploading can take long time, due to your internet connection, but file manager can extract .tar.gz file fast.

 

Actually you can extract tar.gz with ftp using php scripting.

<?php
exec('tar -xzf nameofthefile.tar.gz',$ret);
?>

Code (markup):

Place this in a folder where you place your .tar.gz file and chmod 777 or 666 that folder. (Revert it to chmod 755 after you finish)

If you want to use a gui tool here it is http://ftp-unzip.com/ZipDeploy/

 

That means you are using web server, not FTP server. Do not merge them by that way. Also, that script requires exec function enabled, that not all vendors do due to security reason

 

You upload a simple php file to ftp and extract it via webserver. (You`re using ftp and webserver to extract it).

Most of the paid hosts disable php safe mode so you can use it but if safe mode is enable then you can use http://ftp-unzip.com/ZipDeploy/

I dont get your point about "That means you are using web server, not FTP server"

How on earth you can get a file extracted by ftp server only ?

 

You are right - after researching for hours to find out how I can extract the data some other way, I tried file manager and it was done in a matter of minutes!

Thank you so much! This will come in handy in the future when I have files of a bigger size to transfer. Rep added.

 

Can you please tell me how to do that? Do I place this code in any file .php? How do I change teh chmod?

Thanks!