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
Documentation
The whole documentation is available
in html
format,
you can find it in source packages as well as online
here.
Source code
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.
Packages Signature
All source and binary packages
officially released are signed against the author's GPG key. For a package
signature check out 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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