Disk Archiver

File Format
Name	Disk Archiver
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Disk Archiver
Extension(s)	.dar
Released	2002

Disk Archiver (dar) was created (originally for Linux, but now available for a number of systems) as a replacement for the venerable Tape Archive (TAR) format used in Unix-style operating systems. It supports compression as well as multiple-file archiving, and can split archives across multiple disks, among other features.

Identification

Files begin with bytes 00 00 00 7b.

References

• DAR (Wikipedia)
• DAR official site