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 64 bits are available here.
For windows 32 bits read the FAQ.
Binary package for Linux are generated by your distro's packager, you
should be able to fetch binary packages at your distro site. Today, quite all
distro do provide a dar
binary package, else you are welcome to ask your distro manager(s) to add a package for this cool software :-)
For MacOS, see here
For FreeBSD, see here
Packages Signature
All source and binary packages
officially released are signed against the author's GPG key also available
from public key servers.
For the corresponding package
signatures 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.
Ten years anniversary in 2012 : DAR
has 10 years!
Bugs
you
can check for existing bugs
and report here
those you've found concerning dar or libdar. To open a bug you
need to have a user account at sourceforge. This is necessary to have
a contact to request additional information to, in order to fix the
reported bug.
Feature requests
Feature
requests are listed here. You
can vote for the one you want to be implemented, the ones that interest
most people get implemented first.
Provide or use a patch
You
are free to provide a
patch for dar and/or libdar, but use submitted patch at your
own
risk.
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