diff --git a/pkgs/tools/archivers/dar/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/archivers/dar/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8febdb18d15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/archivers/dar/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, zlib, bzip2, openssl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "dar-2.3.8";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = mirror://sourceforge/dar/dar-2.3.8.tar.gz;
+    md5 = "6c0d383c22df0e1816e860153f60d746";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+	  homepage = http://dar.linux.free.fr/;
+	  description = "Disk ARchiver, allows backing up files into indexed archives";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [zlib bzip2 openssl];
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 85ba9034ca6..2440c3f23ad 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -624,6 +624,10 @@ let
     inherit (gtkLibs) glib;
   };
 
+  dar = import ../tools/archivers/dar {
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv zlib bzip2 openssl;
+  };
+
   ddrescue = builderDefsPackage (selectVersion ../tools/system/ddrescue "1.8") {};
 
   dnsmasq = import ../tools/networking/dnsmasq {