DAR is a command-line backup tool designed to use compression and to make differential or full backups.
You can choose to split your backups over several files or over multiple disks, if you have more than one available.
· archiving / backup
· compression and encryption
· sliced archive in files of requested size
· incremental / differential / decremental backup
· hardlink / softlink / Extended Attributes
What's New in This Release:
· hard links support for pipes, soft links, char and block devices has been
· added (so far, only hard links on plain files were supported)
· added rich overwriting feature for merging archives (-/ option)
· changed default behavior of dar: it no more tries to preserve the atime of
· read files, which had as side effect to modify the ctime. See man page for
· aa and -ac options for details
· simplified the use of the "sed" command in Makefiles.am files
· integrated Wiebe Cazemier's patch for man page
· E option has been extended to work also when generating a single sliced
· archive (no need to have -s option to be able to use -E option).
· slice header has been extended to store additional information (slice
· layout is now redundant in each each slice and may be used as backup from
· a slice to another in case of corruption).
· dar does no more need to read the first then the last slice of an archive to
· get its contents, it now instead only needs the last slice.
· an isolated catalogue can now be used as backup...