DAR Alternatives

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   BorgBackup

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

   46 BorgBackup alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Backup Client

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Arch Linux
   • Fedora
   • Cygwin
   • Ubuntu
   • Debian

   

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   Vorta

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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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Backup Client

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Python
   • Flathub
   • Flatpak

   • Germany
   • EU

   

   

   

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   gzip

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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.

   27 gzip alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • File Compressor
   • File Archiver

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   gzip vs DAR Comments

   Negative comment by 5247009 · Jan 13, 2018

   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
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   Rapidgzip

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   Rapidgzip: Parallelized Decompression of Gzip Files with Support for Fast Random Access.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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   GNU tar

    5 likes

   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

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   borgmatic

    5 likes

   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 (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Backup Client

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   • Global

   

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   XZ Utils

    6 likes

   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

   • File Compressor

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Haiku

   

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   Negative comment by 5247009 · Jan 13, 2018

   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
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    bzip2

     2 likes

    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

    • File Compressor

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

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    Emborg

     4 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    • Backup Client

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    AutoArchive

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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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