BAR – Backup archiver program

BAR is backup archiver program to create compressed and encrypted archives of files that can be stored on a hard disk, CD, DVD, or directly on a server via FTP, SCP, or SFTP. A server mode and a scheduler are integrated for making automated backups in the background. A graphical front end that can connect to the (remote) server is included.

Features

• can store and restore files and images

• can split archive files into pieces; each piece can be read independent

• compress of data with zlib, bzip2 or lzma algorithms

• encryption with gcrypt algrithms (AES, TWOFISH etc.)

• asymmetric encryption with RSA

• fast file format: can find and extract single files without decompressing/decryption of the whole archive

• direct copy of archives to remote computer via FTP or SSH (SCP or SFTP)

• can store archives on CD/DVD (with external tools)

• support pre- and post-processing of CD/DVD images (e. g. for including functions of dvdisaster)

• daemon-mode with control over plain and TLS network connection

• integrated scheduler to start backups daily or weekly

• nice graphical front end (written in Java with SWT)