News
30 August 2016:
DarGUI
1.0 released. This release adds compatibility with Dar 2.5.x and is available for both Linux and Windows.
10 August 2013:
DarGUI
0.7.2 released. This release fixes a number of bugs found in v. 0.7.0 and adds one new option when creating an archive
24 September 2012:
DarGUI
0.7.0 released. This release adds a few extra features and fixes some bugs found in version 0.6.0.
15 May 2012:
DarGUI
0.6.0 released. This release adds compatibility with Dar 2.4.x and is available for both Linux and Windows.
20 February 2011:
DarGUI
0.5.2 released. This release adds limited user configuration,
including default settings for archive creation.
27 February 2009:
DarGUI
0.5.0 released. This release adds script creation and backup
scheduling capabilities.
Introduction
DarGUI
is a graphical frontend for the Disk ARchiving utility (DAR) that aims
to make it easier and quicker to perform common backup tasks using DAR.
It uses the GTK+ library, which is installed on most Linux
distributions, so usually the only additional dependency is
DAR.
DarGUI
aims to complement and enhance the command line features of DAR rather
than conceal them, and to help users to learn how DAR works so that
they can use it from the command line when necessary. It is written in
Pascal using FreePascal and the Lazarus IDE.
About DAR archives
Dar is a
versatile format intended primarily for creating backup archives which
can be stored on removable media of any number and
size. A single DAR archive can be saved in separate files (called slices) on an
appropriate number of floppy disks,
CD-R, DVD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, Zip, flash memory sticks, etc., whatever is
most convenient.
Dar offers a string of features for managing backup
archives, including the ability to compare archived files with those
currently on the filesystem and to make differential backups. Archive
catalogues can be extracted and retained on the system for
reference. For a full list of the features offered by Dar
see Dar's
Features. Dar's author, Denis Corbin, has provided
excellent and detailed documentation
which is essential reading for anyone using DarGUI.
About DarGUI
The Dar
command line utility offers an immense number of features for creating,
restoring and manipulating backup archives.
DarGUI was conceived as an attempt to provide an easy way of accessing
the most common and widely-used functions of Dar. Unlike KDar, which
by-passes Dar to access the libdar libraries directly, DarGUI is simply
a means of compiling a Dar command which is executed in a console. It
does as little as possible to hide the Dar command line from the user,
because for more complex operations knowledge of the Dar commandline is
essential.
DarGUI is released in for Windows as a self-installing executable and for 32 bit and 64 bit Linux
as a tar archive containing the executable, support scripts and an install script.
Features
The default
language used by DarGUI is English but it also ships with
localisation files for French, Spanish, German and Swedish. At
present
DarGUI provides
the following features:
- view the contents of DAR archives
- select files from an archive for extraction using filemasks
- view archive statistics (number of files, compression
information, etc)
- extract/ restore selected or all files from an archive
- create new archives using a limited range of options which
include a specified slice size, compression, file and directory filters
- create differential archives
- isolate archive catalogues
- compare files in an archive with those in the filesystem
- check the integrity of files in a backup archive
- schedule backups to be done regularily or once in the future
- creation and opening of encrypted archives
- creation of backup scripts
- add archives to a Dar Manager database
- reformat archives to fit on different media
- easily change version of Dar to be used
Bugs
Please report any bugs that you find, either by using the
SourceForge Bug
Tracker or by email to mgpoole@users.sourceforge.net