DAR (Disk Archiver)

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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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

• List of file archivers
• List of archive formats
• Comparison of archive formats

[edit] External links

• Homepage of DAR
• Homepage of Kdar