diff --git a/cmd/toolbox/cmd/archive.go b/cmd/toolbox/cmd/archive.go
index 8cb0d92..b304633 100644
--- a/cmd/toolbox/cmd/archive.go
+++ b/cmd/toolbox/cmd/archive.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"os"
 
+	"github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir"
 	"github.com/sorintlab/agola/internal/toolbox/archive"
 	"github.com/sorintlab/agola/internal/util"
 
@@ -59,6 +60,16 @@ func archiveRun(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 		defer out.Close()
 	}
 
+	// expand ~ in archiveinfos SourceDir
+	for i := range a.ArchiveInfos {
+		exp, err := homedir.Expand(a.ArchiveInfos[i].SourceDir)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Fatalf("failed to expand dir %q: %v", a.ArchiveInfos[i].SourceDir, err)
+		}
+
+		a.ArchiveInfos[i].SourceDir = exp
+	}
+
 	if err := archive.CreateTar(a.ArchiveInfos, out); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("create tar error: %v", err)
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/toolbox/cmd/unarchive.go b/cmd/toolbox/cmd/unarchive.go
index cde841e..480f113 100644
--- a/cmd/toolbox/cmd/unarchive.go
+++ b/cmd/toolbox/cmd/unarchive.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"os"
 
+	"github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir"
 	"github.com/sorintlab/agola/internal/toolbox/unarchive"
 
 	"github.com/spf13/cobra"
@@ -52,9 +53,15 @@ func init() {
 func unarchiveRun(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
 	flag.Parse()
 
+	// expand ~ in destdir
+	destDir, err := homedir.Expand(unarchiveOpts.destDir)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("failed to expand dir %q: %v", unarchiveOpts.destDir, err)
+	}
+
 	br := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
 
-	if err := unarchive.Unarchive(br, unarchiveOpts.destDir, unarchiveOpts.overwrite, unarchiveOpts.removeDestDir); err != nil {
+	if err := unarchive.Unarchive(br, destDir, unarchiveOpts.overwrite, unarchiveOpts.removeDestDir); err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("untar error: %v", err)
 	}
 }
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 611dbdf..f2ce41d 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 v1.10.0
 	github.com/minio/minio-go v6.0.14+incompatible
 	github.com/mitchellh/copystructure v1.0.0
-	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
 	github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0-rc1 // indirect
 	github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/opencontainers/runc v0.1.1 // indirect
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 6009d21..d11497a 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0/go.mod h1:SfyaCUpYCn1Vlf4IUYiD9fPX4A5wJrk
 github.com/mitchellh/go-wordwrap v1.0.0/go.mod h1:ZXFpozHsX6DPmq2I0TCekCxypsnAUbP2oI0UX1GXzOo=
 github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.0 h1:9D+8oIskB4VJBN5SFlmc27fSlIBZaov1Wpk/IfikLNY=
 github.com/mitchellh/reflectwalk v1.0.0/go.mod h1:mSTlrgnPZtwu0c4WaC2kGObEpuNDbx0jmZXqmk4esnw=
+github.com/nwaples/rardecode v1.0.0/go.mod h1:5DzqNKiOdpKKBH87u8VlvAnPZMXcGRhxWkRpHbbfGS0=
 github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter v0.0.0-20170122224234-a0225b3f23b5/go.mod h1:vsDQFd/mU46D+Z4whnwzcISnGGzXWMclvtLoiIKAKIo=
 github.com/onsi/ginkgo v1.6.0 h1:Ix8l273rp3QzYgXSR+c8d1fTG7UPgYkOSELPhiY/YGw=
 github.com/onsi/ginkgo v1.6.0/go.mod h1:lLunBs/Ym6LB5Z9jYTR76FiuTmxDTDusOGeTQH+WWjE=