| Stable release | 2.3.9 / May 22, 2009 |
|---|---|
| Operating system | 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, Mac OS X and some others.
Frontends
There are GUI frontends for DAR called Kdar or DarGUI (for Linux).
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
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