RAR is an archive manager for the .rar format only. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in the RAR file format.
They have really gone out of their way to cut costs in every corner, when they created this software. No GUI and no .zip file support etc.
Latest version: RAR 6.21 console version ( only CLI-version ) available for Linux.
DAR - Disk ARchive Archiver is a full featured archiver with support for differential backups, ATTR/ACL support, compression, slices. DAR also supports pipes for remote operations, including SSH. There is two graphical user interfaces available for DAR, one is KDar and the other is named DarGUI.
DAR application can store a backup in several files (called “slices” in the following) of a given size, eventually pausing or running a user command/script before starting the next slice.
ARK archiver for Linux manages various archive formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, lha, rar and zip. Support for certain archive formats depends on the appropriate command-line programs being installed. It can be used to browse, extract, create, and modify archives.
License: GNU GPLv2
Developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999.
7-Zip uses its own 7z archive format, but can read and write several other archive formats and is excellent for unpacking .ISO archives.
Very cheap all-in-one solution.
Offer valid from September 12 to October 18.
New offer 85% off + 3 months extra. They have also fixed their Linux client so you are recommended to update to version:1.1.
