DAR - Disk ARchive
command line and library for full, incremental, encrypted backups
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Description
DAR is a command-line backup tool, that uses compression, makes differential or full backups, which can be split over several files or disks. Dar saves *all* UNIX inode types, hard links, as well as Extended Attributes. And many other features.
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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
- Remote operation through ssh or netcat
- Integrated archive protection and repair using Parchive