DAR Alternatives

DAR is a shell command that backs up from a single file to a whole filesystems, 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 and 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). Read more.

Alternative apps to DAR:

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WinRAR 7.11

Powerful archive manager can compress/decompress RAR, ZIP and other file formats.
- Free to Try
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
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7-Zip 24.09

7-Zip is a free file archiver that offers a high compression ratio.
- Freeware
- Windows, Android
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PeaZip 10.4.0

Free, open source archiver featuring volume spanning, authenticated encryption and compression in several formats.
- Freeware
- Windows
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WinZip 29.0

WinZip is bar none, the most popular and useful file compression utility out there.
- Free to Try
- Windows, Android

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