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Taper 5.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Oct 7 10:05:17 1995
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:16:35 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Yusuf Nagree <yusuf@yusuf.bogo.co.uk>
Reply-To: yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
Subject: Taper 5.0
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This is to announce the release of taper 5.0. Below is the LSM
entry and then the major changes in the new version.
Title: Taper
Version: 5.0
Entered-date: 011095 (DDMMYY)
Description: This is a tape backup and restore program that provides
a friendly user interface to allow backing/restoring
files to a tape drive. Alternatively, files can be backed
up to archive files. The user interface is similar to
Norton Commander and allows traversal of directories, and
selection of files easily. SCSI drives are supported as are
multiple tape archives. Incremental backups & restores
are handled. Information about all archives made is
stored on the hard disk for easy retrieval about what
has been backed up.
Keywords: Tape, Backup, Archive
Author: yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk (yusuf nagree)
Maintained-by: yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
Primary site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Backup/taper-5.0.tar.gz
(try /pub/Linux/Incoming first)
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/Linux/sources/sbin/taper-5.0.tar.gz
Approx 80K-90K
Platforms: linux > 1.2.1
ncurses >= 1.9.2
Copying-policy: GPL
Major changes in Taper 5.0
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* Information stored about each volume - when it was backed up,
what was backed up etc..
* Support for incremental backups totally overhauled
* More intelligent restore - if multiple copies of the same
file are on an archive, taper will automatically restore
only the most recent file (can be overriden)
* Able to restore directories & devices without the tape -
information from info file is used
* Preferences can be changed within the program and then saved
to a preference file or to a shell command line
* One program only instead of three - menu selection for the
appropriate program
* Able to see all the archives made regardless of whether
the particular tape is in the drive
* Lots of other changes and bug fixes (see CHANGES file for
details)
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Yusuf Nagree yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
Author & Maintainer of
TAPER
The user friendly Linux Backup Solution
Available from
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Backup or
/pub/Linux/Incoming
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin
and all mirrors
Current version 5.0 October, 1995
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