DAR Alternatives

DAR is described as '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' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are more than 10 alternatives to DAR for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, BSD, Haiku and Ubuntu apps. The best DAR alternative is BorgBackup, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DAR are Vorta, gzip, Rapidgzip and borgmatic.

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  1. BorgBackup icon
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    BorgBackup (short: Borg) is a deduplicating backup program. Optionally, it supports compression and authenticated encryption.

    37 BorgBackup alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Arch Linux
    • Fedora
    • Cygwin
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
     
    • BorgBackup is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to DAR.

    • BorgBackup is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to DAR.

    • BorgBackup is Free and Open SourceDAR is also Free and Open Source
    • BorgBackup is Privacy focused and LightweightDAR is not according to our users
  2. Vorta icon
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    Vorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty Borg Backup with your favorite desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft.

    20 Vorta alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  3. gzip icon
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    GNU Gzip is a software application used for file compression and decompression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    gzip is a compression utility; DAR is a backup utility. gzip alone cannot even archive files; files need to be wrapped first with tar.

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    • gzip is Free and Open SourceDAR is also Free and Open Source
    • gzip is LightweightDAR is not according to our users
  4. Rapidgzip icon
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    Rapidgzip: Parallelized Decompression of Gzip Files with Support for Fast Random Access.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
    • Rapidgzip is the most popular Windows alternative to DAR.

    • Rapidgzip is Free and Open SourceDAR is also Free and Open Source
  5. borgmatic icon
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    borgmatic is simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations. Protect your files with client-side encryption. Backup your databases too. Monitor it all with integrated third-party services.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    GNU tar saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
  7. XZ Utils icon
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    XZ Utils is free general-purpose data compression software with high compression ratio. XZ Utils were written for POSIX-like systems, but also work on some not-so-POSIX systems. XZ Utils are the successor to LZMA Utils.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haiku
     
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    XZ is a compression utility; DAR is a backup utility. XZ alone cannot even archive files; files need to be wrapped first with tar.

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    • XZ Utils is Free and Open SourceDAR is also Free and Open Source
  8. Emborg icon
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    Emborg is a simple command line utility to orchestrate backups. It is built as a front-end to Borg, a powerful and fast deduplicating backup program. With Emborg, you specify all the details about your backups once in advance, and then use a very simple command line interface...

    28 Emborg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    bzip2 is a file compressor that uses the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm. It is only a compressor for single files and not a full archiver.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    AutoArchive is a simple utility to help create backups more easily. The idea of the program is that all essential information for creating a single backup—such as list of directories that should be archived, the archive name, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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