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Current Status

2.3.11
released
March 12th, 2011

2.4.2
released
September 5th, 2011

2.5.0
Development started
November 29th, 2011

Development cycle in color codes, and how to obtain corresponding source code or binary package


development phase (adding and testing new features)					Frozen API phase (Doc. packaging)	Pre-release phase (intensive testing)	release phase (fixing bugs, no new feature)			end of maintainance

Presentation

In very brief:

dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files, taking care of hard links, Extended Attributes, sparse files, MacOS's file forks, any inode type (including Solaris Door inodes), etc. It has been tested under Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X and several other systems, it is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It relies on the libdar library and its APplication Interface (API), which is the core part of dar programs; as such, this library is released under the GPL along with dar. Consequently, to use the API, your program must be released under the GPL as well. Some external programs do rely directly on libdar or on the dar command-line tool to provide Graphical User Interfaces (GUI).

For a more detailed presentation: please click here.

Features

A detailed list of features can be found in the documentation, here.

Asking for support

If FAQ, tutorial, mini-howto, usage notes, or man page do not answer to your problem, you can read the dar-support mailing-list archive at gmane, and use the search engine (the green text box at the bottom of the page) to look for keywords that match you problem. If that still does not solve your problem, you can subscribe to dar-support mailing-list and send an email to the mailing-list that explain your problem.

Documentation

The documentation is available in html format, you can find it in source packages as well as online here.

Download

Source code

To get source code all is explained here for releases, here for pre-releases, here for Development versions.

Binary package

Binary packages for windows are available here.

Binary package for Linux are generated by your distro's packager, you should be able to fetch binary packages at your distro site (Today, all distro do provide a dar binary package).

For MacOS, FreeBSD, see here.

News & Events

Read the dar-news mailing-list archive for latest major events. You can also subscribe to this mailing-list which is read-only (you cannot post to it) has a very low email volume (in average, less than one a month), and automatically be informed about major events like new releases or security issues.

For day to day events, check the sourceforge project page.

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