dar-backup v2 beta v. 0.6.11 released

dar-backup v2 is a python based reimplementation of the bash based version 1.

I have trusted it since August 2024, and hope it can be useful to others with a use case like mine.

Main features:

• Utilize dar for the heavy lifting. Dar is a very powerful backup program along the lines of tar.
• Perform restore tests after backup
• Build Parchive (Par2) redundancy files to increase likelihood of fixing bitrot
• Handle archive catalogs when backing up and cleaning out old archives

Here is the link to dar-backup v2's README
Link to Changelog

Installation is only a simple pip install away

mkdir $HOME/tmp
cd $HOME/tmp
python3 -m venv venv    # create the virtual environment 
. venv/bin/activate     # activate the virtual env
pip install dar-backup  # run pip to install `dar-backup`

dar-backup -v
deactivate