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Current Status

Release
2.3.8
released June 20th, 2008
Pre-release
2.3.0
Completed Feb 24th, 2006
Development
 2.4.0
  Started March 2nd, 2006
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not yet available
 start of development
 some features added
 main features added
 all feature added soon end of development
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pre-release

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of pre-release
 first
release
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release
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Table of contents

Presentation

dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files. 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). Since version 2.0.0 an Application Interface (API) is available, opening the way for external/independent Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) like kdar. This API relies on the libdar library, which is the core part of DAR programs; as such, the API is released under the GPL. Consequently, to use the API, your program must be released under the GPL as well.

Features

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

Download

To get source code all is explained here for releases, here for pre-releases, here for Development versions. Binary packages are only available for Windows systems *and* released versions.

Binary package for Linux are generated by your distro's packagers, you should be able to fetch binary packages at your distro site (Any good distro should provide a dar binary package ;-)  Redhat, Suze, Gentoo, Ubuntu, are the one I know they do).

Releases Planned

The following table may be reorganized without notification. For a list of previous release please see the documentation

Version
Release Date
Status
Features
Limitations
2.4.0 N/A Major Release
  • archive merging (with overwriting) (now implemented)
  • hard link support for symlink,  pipes, char and block devices (now implemented)
  • full encryption with dar_manager
  • some more encryption cypher
  • some more compression algo (lzo now implemented)
  • UID/GID support for more than 16 bits (now implemented)
  • more features to be defined...
 N/A
   

Documentation



The documentation is available in html format, you can find it in source packages as well as online. It includes :
  • feature description (from where you can reach the corresponding man page, notes, and tutorial)
  • man pages
  • FAQ
  • tutorial
  • min-howto
  • notes
  • examples of use for several users
  • sample script to use with dar
  • and things you could not even imagine you could find there ;-) --- I know, I spend too much time writing things one will never read :-) will you?
Ah, yes, the link for online documentation

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