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Darwrap
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Description
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Darwrap is a backup program using Dar_. It can be used to automate your backup
to a local hard drive, a remote filesystem (using rsync_), or even `Amazon
S3`_. Differential backup, cryptographic signing and encryption are supported.

.. _Dar: http://dar.linux.free.fr/
.. _Amazon S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
.. _rsync: http://rsync.samba.org/

Features
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* Supports archive encryption and signing
* Can add redundancy using `parchive`_
* Supports differential backups using the tower of Hanoi rotation scheme
* The backup process can easily be interrupted and resumed
* Completely automated restoration
* Released in the Public Domain

.. _parchive: http://parchive.sourceforge.net/

News
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January 3rd 2012
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Fixed a bug in the `rsync` destination type that would occur with large backups.

July 1st 2011
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Added the `rsync` destination type to allow remote backups with rsync and SSH.

April 6th 2010
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* The user can now prevent a backup process from running.
* The user can now kill a backup process.
* Faster process management code.

February 8th 2010
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* Added support for cryptographic signing of backup archives.
* Can now pass options to `gpg` from the configuration file.

February 4th 2010
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Initial release.

Download
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Darwrap is available both as a Pacman_ package (x86_64 only), or in source
form. For source or Pacman installation, please refer to the
`Generic download and install instructions`_.

* `Latest source tarball`_
* `PGP signature`_

.. _Pacman: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/
.. _Generic download and install instructions: download-install-doc_en.html
.. _Latest source tarball: ../public-repo.svasey.org/src/darwrap.tar.gz
.. _PGP signature: ../public-repo.svasey.org/src/darwrap.tar.gz.sig

Documentation
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See the `darwrap documentation page`_.

.. _darwrap documentation page: darwrap-doc_en.html