Extracting .SAR file.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Am trying to upgrade to sp11 & have downloaded the required file for the same. How do i extract the .sar file. Am running on windows XP.

Thanks

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Unni,

The procedure:

1.Downlaod the required .sar files(there are 4 files)

I assume you have them already.

2.Download the sapcare exe from the market place.

3.then create folder,and have sapcar in it along with the 4 .sar files.

4.go to command prompt,and then go the folder.

5. type sapcar -xvf and then the full file name and press enter.

6. repeat step 5 for all the .sar files.

7.go to the folder and you can see sapinst folder created,from there run sapinst.exe and you can upgrade.

I hope I am clear,if yes,please do award points.

Rgs

vikas

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Could you plese give the path to sapcare exe in the market palce?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Got the file.

thankx

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Unni,

Give me your Email address i will give it to you.

Regards,

Bhavik

[former_member190939 · Accepted solution]

can you please forward it to me? <email address removed by moderator>

thanks,

Ismail MAC

[gobinda_sharma]

MAY BE HELPFUL:

How to extract SAR  file For Windows:

Steps:

1. Download the required .sar files.

2. Download the SAPCAR exe from the SAP market place.

3. Then create a new folder(e.g C:/HANA/SAR) and then copy SAPCAR exe file in it along with the other .sar files from default download folder.

4. Rename the SAPCAR exe filename(For example: I have renamed it from SAPCAR_721-20010453.EXE to SAPCAR.EXE)

5. Go to command prompt,and then go to the folder.location(i,e C:/HANA/SAR - This folder is having SAPCAR exe file in it along with the other .sar files)

6. Type sapcar -xvf and then the full file name and press enter.Please see below example:

Example: C:\HANA\SAR>sapcar -xvf IMDB_CLIENT100_112_5-10009664.SAR press enter

(Where "IMDB_CLIENT100_112_5-10009664.SAR" is the file name)

7. It will extact required files from SAR package.

  Output Message: SAPCAR: 65 file(s) extracted

Done.

Thanks,

Gobinda R Sharma

[former_member274973]

Thank you so much this worked for me. Excellent..

[former_member683085]

Excellent, I too had similer requirement and worked as explaned.

[Former Member]

Download another sapcar and keep the sapcar file in the directory in which you need to extrace and use the command

sapcar...exe -xvf your file name

[Former Member]

Two elegant solutions to this can be found in blog https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/1024. [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]

Cheers, Wolfram

[Former Member]

Hi Unni,

Good that you got it.

Now uncar the files.

P.S: Award points also.

Rgs

vikas

[Former Member]

Hi Unni,

To extract this content you require sapcar.exe. This utility will extract contents from .SAR file.

Command to extract this file is:

sapcar -xvf <sar file name with path>

Write this command on command prompt at a location where sapcar file lies.

Regards,

Bhavik

[Former Member]

Hello Bhavik,

I have downloaded the sapcar.exe and whenever I am writing the command in the command prompt, I am getting the following error. Please check and suggest me any possible solutions.

Regards,

Shahan