💡Tips for Deploy ➡️ Recommended copy strategy for file.Folder deployments

For file.Folder deployments use archive-based copy strategies.

Tar is the preferred default on Unix/Linux because it preserves permissions and, starting from version 25.3, extracts directly into the target folder for faster execution.
Additionally, TAR - file.Folder deployments now support finer archive extraction control with stripComponents and members options.

Zip copy strategy is designed for .zip artifacts and is ideal when deploying to Windows hosts, but also .zip artifacts when deploying to Unix/Linux targets over SSH, especially if you need to preserve file permissions.

Enabling Autodetect is recommended. It selects the appropriate extraction tool based on the artifact’s extension (TAR, ZIP, etc.), optimizing deployments with no host-level configuration required.

Learn more about the file.Folder copy strategies and performance improvements.