DAR

DAR's standout capability is the quick restoration of individual files from enormous, potentially remote, archives. Thanks to its internal catalog, you can retrieve a single file from a sliced, compressed, and encrypted backup stored on an FTP or SFTP server by fetching only the essential data blocks. This eliminates the need to download entire archives. Beyond this, DAR is a full-featured archiver that handles differential backups, selective compression, and strong encryption. It meticulously saves all UNIX file metadata, ensuring a perfect backup replica of your system, including hard links, sparse files, and extended attributes.