Saturday September 29, 2007. 09:20 PM
FreshMeat
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.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release brings five minor bugfixes concerning
regex in masks, a Makefile fix, a dar_manager
error report, archive finalization when the
operation has been interrupted by the user, and an
execvp problem when dar_manager calls dar.