are you sure its tar and not gzip.

try gzip -d yourfile.tar.gz
i have updated the first post
msk19994 Reviewed by msk19994 on . Unzipping tar.gz giving error Hey Guys So first i was backing up data on my other server that had webmin so what i did was to tar a folder i used this command ok and now that folder was tarred to filename.tar.gz then i went to the new hosting and wget the filename.tar.gz on it and now when i am untar it via this command ie i am using the above command in my domain directory where the file got wget so after untarring some files i get this error via ssh Rating: 5