DAR (Disk Archiver)

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DAR
Latest release 2.3.8 / June 20, 2008
OS Cross-platform
Type Data compression
License GPL
Website dar.linux.free.fr

DAR (Disk ARchive) is a command-line archiving tool and a replacement for tar.

It features:

  • Support for slices, archives split over multiple files of a particular size.
  • Option of deleting files from the system which are removed in the archive.
  • Incremental backup.
  • Per-file compression with gzip or bzip2 (as opposed to compressing the whole archive). An individual can choose not to compress already compressed files based on their filename suffix.
  • Fast-extracting of files from anywhere in the archive.
  • Fast listing of archive contents through saving the catalogue of files in the archive.
  • Optional Blowfish encryption.
  • tested under Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X and some others.

Frontends

There are GUI frontends for DAR called Kdar or DarGUI.

A scheduler / command-line frontend known as SaraB allows the Towers of Hanoi, Grandfather-Father-Son, or any custom backup rotation strategy, and modifications are available for PAR file support. Extended versions known as bzSaraB and baras are also available.

See also

External links

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