About:
Dar is a shell command that makes backup of a directory tree and files. Its features include splitting archives over several files, CDs, ZIPs, or floppies, compression, full or differential backups, strong encryption, proper saving and restoration of hard links and extended attributes, remote backup using pipes and external command (such as ssh), and rearrangement of the "slices" of an existing archive. It can now run commands between slices, encrypt archives, and quickly retrieve individual files from differential and full backups. Dar also has external GUI like kdar for Linux, thanks to the well documented API.

Author:
Denis Corbin <dar |dot| linux |at| free |dot| fr> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.70/10.00 (10 votes)

Homepage:
http://dar.linux.free.fr/
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65612
Zip:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=65612
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/dar
OS X package:
http://vasi.dyndns.org:3128/files/ports/dar/
BSD Ports URL:
http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/dar/
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://dar.cvs.sourceforge.net/
Bug tracker:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=65612&atid=511612
Mailing list archive:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=35918
Mirror site:
http://dar.sourceforge.net/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: SunOS/Solaris
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Security :: Cryptography, System :: Archiving, System :: Archiving :: Backup, System :: Archiving :: Compression, System :: Archiving :: Packaging, System :: Installation/Setup, Utilities

Dependencies: [change]
bzip2 (Default branch) (optional)
Extended Attributes and ACLs for Linux (optional)
OpenSSL (optional)
zlib (optional)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.3.8	20-Jun-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] memory hungry
by martin - Apr 3rd 2008 04:54:46

if you have thousands files and a lot GB's, read first
about memory usage.

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[»] Re: memory hungry
by edrusb - Apr 3rd 2008 12:19:46


> if you have thousands files and a lot

> GB's, read first

> about memory usage.

The memory requirement is proportional to the
number of files not to the amount of data to be saved.
For more detailed info see
http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/Limitations.html


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[»] scripts
by plastic_rat - Oct 14th 2004 13:43:44

I can recommend DAR. I have some helper scripts for it at http://www.sliqware.ndo.co.uk/

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[»] Works well with SSH and Cygwin
by Jason Buberel - Sep 23rd 2004 22:00:13

I use dar to perform remote network backups of a hosted linux server to a local Windows machine using the windows build of dar under cygwin. It works great. Wonderfull application.

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[»] Nice job on version2
by zentara - Nov 5th 2003 12:12:50

Hi, I must compliment you on version 2 of dar. The documentation is much better organized and easier to
understand.

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[»] great tool for backing up to cdr
by zentara - Jan 15th 2003 10:44:01

To anyone looking for a way to get around tar's limitation of not handling compressed multi-volumes: dar is the answer. It even comes
with a static version so you can restore from scratch.
Very nice features. I can't wait for the gui frontend. :-)

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