DAR - Disk ARchive 2.7.17

DAR is a command line backup and archiving tool that uses selective compression (does not compress compressed files), strong encryption, can split archives into different files of certain size and provide fast hashing, supporting differential backups with or without delta , ftp and sftp binaries for remote cloud storage.

Internal storage directory, allowing very fast recovery of even a single file from a huge archive, finally trimmed, compressed, encrypted finally placed on a cloud storage remote cloud, by only reading/fetching the data needed to perform operations.

Features of DAR

• Storage/Backup
• Built-in compression (gzip, bzip2, lzo, xz/lzma) and encryption
• Public Key Encryption (PGP) and Strong Encryption (AES, twofish, blowfish, serpent, camellia)
• Store slices in files of required size
• Create a backup file and store it as large as you want
• Full backup/incremental/difference/descending
• binary delta available when performing incremental/differential backup
• Handle any inode type (directory, simple file, special device, symlink, named pipe, socket, door...)
• Hardlink support for simple files, special devices, softlinks, named paths,
• Sparse file detection and recovery
• Extended attribute support (including Linux ACLs and MacOS X File Forks)
• Quickly recover files even from compressed and/or encrypted archives
• support native sftp and ftp protocol to use remote cloud storage
• Support for tape (sequential reading mode)
• Isolation of table contents for use as a differential backup or if archiving failure occurs
• Generate md5, sha1 or sha512 hash file per archive slice
• Hook for user scripts between slices
• Hook for actions before and after saving user-defined file directories (suitable for live database backups)
• File change detection during backup, ability to retry failed file up to a certain number of times
• Merge archives with default or well-tuned override policy
• Dry running mode
• User comments in archive title
• Archive reslicing without decompression or decryption
• Filesystem specific attribute support (ext2/3/4, HFS+)
• Backup/Restore via ssh or netcat
• Protect and repair the built-in repository with Parchive
• restore repair feature truncated (due to lack of disk space, system crash, power failure)