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.
This is free and open source software.
Key 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 regularly 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.
Website: dargui.sourceforge.io
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Developer: Malcolm Poole
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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Related Software
| GUI Archive Managers | |
|---|---|
| PeaZip | Cross-platform portable file archiver |
| File Roller | Archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment |
| Engrampa | Archive manager for the MATE environment |
| 7-Zip | File archiver with a high compression ratio |
| Ark | Archive utility for the KDE Plasma Desktop |
| Xarchiver | Front-end to various command line archiving tools |
| Arqiver | Simple Qt5 archive manager |
| DarGUI | Graphical frontend for DAR |
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