DAR v2.6.1

DAR (Directory Archiver) creates full, incremental, compressed and encrypted backups or archives.

It is essentially a command-line based backup utility that utilizes selective compression and strong encryption to make excellent archive backups. It can perform full, differential, incremental and decremental backups. It provides testing, diffing, merging, listing and of course data extracting from existing archives.

Key Features:

• Archiving/backup
• Integrated compression and encryption
• Sliced archive in files of requested size
• Full/incremental/differential/decremental backup
• Hardlink support for plain files, special devies, softlinks, named pipes,
• Sparse file detection and restoration
• Extended Attributes support (including Linux ACL and MacOS X File Forks)
• Fast restoration of files even from compressed and/or encrypted archive
• Support for tape (sequential reading mode)
• Table contents isolation for use as differential backup or if archive corruption occurred
• On-fly md5 or sha1 hash file generation for each archive slice
• Hooks for user''s scripts between slices
• Hooks for action before and after saving user defined directory of file (suitable for live database backup)
• Detection of file change during backup, possibility to retry a failed file up to a given number times
• Archive merging with default or fine tunable overwriting policy
• Dry-run execution mode
• User comments in archive header
• Archive reslicing without decompression or decryption
• backup/restoration over ssh or netcat
• Integrated archive protection and repair using Parchive