D i s k    A R c h i v e

PRESENTATION

dar is a shell command, that makes backup of a directory tree and files. It has been tested under Linux, Windows (95, 2000, NT, XP, 7, 8, 10), OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD, it has been reported as working under Mac OS X as well as Android and on Rasperry Pi.

External GUI exist (see homepage at http://dar.linux.free.fr/ for a list of references) thanks to the libdar library and its API that powers the dar suite command-line tools provided with libdar:

Actually dar is a set of six commands over libdar library: dar dar_xform dar_slave dar_manager dar_cp dar_split

with in addition: dar_static (statically linked version of dar, not all system support static linking)

This library is part of dar and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL in the following), like all the source code of the Dar suite programs. This means you can link libdar to your programs at the condition your programs are also covered by the GPL, which says in particular that you must provide source code of your programs. See COPYING file for details.

DOCUMENTATION

Documentation is built during the compilation process, see doc/README A built version is also available online at: http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc

INSTALLATION

see INSTALL file