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DAR

Disk Archive tool for full and incremental backups

Backup & Recovery ★ 205 stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

DAR is a command-line backup and archiving tool that creates full, differential, and incremental archives. It supports strong encryption, compression, and slicing archives across media.

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Key features

  • Full and incremental archives
  • Strong encryption
  • Archive slicing across media

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Written in C++
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

Is DAR secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for DAR's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

DAR replaces

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