


        D i s k    A R c h i v e


PRESENTATION
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dar is a shell command, that makes backup of a directory tree and files.
It has been tested under Linux, Windows (95, 2000, NT, XP, 7, 8, 10),
OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and NetBSD, it has been reported as working under
Mac OS X as well as Android and on Rasperry Pi.

External GUI exist (see homepage at http://dar.linux.free.fr/ for a list
of references) thanks to the libdar library and its API that powers the
dar suite command-line tools provided with libdar:

Actually dar is a set of six commands over libdar library:
        dar
        dar_xform
        dar_slave
        dar_manager
        dar_cp
	dar_split

with in addition:
        dar_static (statically linked version of dar, not all system
	            support static linking)

This library is part of dar and licensed under the GNU General
Public License (GPL in the following), like all the source code of the Dar
suite programs. This means you can link libdar to your programs at
the condition your programs are also covered by the GPL, which says
in particular that you must provide source code of your programs. See
COPYING file for details.


DOCUMENTATION
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Documentation is built during the compilation process, see doc/README
A built version is also available online at: http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc


INSTALLATION
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see INSTALL file

