KDar For Linux

KDar (KDE Disk Archiver) is an open source, freely distributed and multiplatform graphical software implemented in C++ around the Qt toolkit as an interface to the DAR (Disk ARchive) backup utility, designed especially for the KDE desktop environment.

The application is a disk-based backup and archiving utility that uses the libdar library to create backups of files and folders, supporting differential, full, encrypted, incremental, as well as decremental backups.

Key features include filters, differential backups, slices, compression, selective compression, direct access, hard links, extended attributes, archive testing, isolation, restore, flat restoration, nodump flag, user commands between slices, string substitution, and equivalent DAR commands.

Its graphical user interface is simple and intuitive, which means that you won’t have to be an expert in backups to use it. You will be able to browse your files and choose which ones are eligible for your next backup, as well as to open existing backup archives, view their contents and restore files.

Both archive creation and restore dialogs have various options that are extremely essential for such an application. For example, you can choose to automatically overwrite existing files or get a notification if files exist, to enable the dry-run mode, or to enable the differential backup mode.

The application is written entirely in the C++ programming language and uses the cross-platform Qt GUI toolkit for its graphical user interface. It is distributed as a native installer for 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu-based OSes, as well as a universal sources archive, so you can optimize and deploy it on a specific hardware architecture or operating system.

KDar has been successfully tested with various GNU/Linux distribution, as well as the FreeBSD operating system, that had the KDE desktop environment installed by default. It will also work with other desktop environments, including GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, MATE, Cinnamon and Razor-Qt (LXQt).