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Taper 5.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Nov 4 01:28:19 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 23:50:30 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: linux-announce-owner@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Yusuf Nagree <yusuf@yusuf.bogo.co.uk>
Reply-To: yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
Subject: Taper 5.1
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This is to announce a new version of taper. Taper is a user friendly
backup program for Linux, especially designed for SCSI and floppy driver
tape drives. It handles incremental backups, multiple tape backups, most
recent restore, compression and a host of others.
The new features for 5.1 are:
* You now need ncurses v1.9.6 with the forms library
* File sets now supported
* New options --exclude-files - excludes a particular class
of files from the backup (eg. .o files)
* New option --exclude-compress stops compression on certain
types of files (eg. .gz, .Z .gif)
* Man page
* Able to give volume and archive title just prior to backup
rather than having to specify on command line
* The usual bug fixes & minor changes (see CHANGES file for details)
The LSM entry is:
Title: Taper
Version: 5.1
Entered-date: 301095 (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. Selecting files for backup and restore
is very similar to the Mouseless Commander interface and
allows easy traversal of directories. Recursively selected
directories are supported. Incremental backup and automatic
most recent restore are defaults settings. Both SCSI and
floppy tape drives are supported. Information about archives
is stored on the hard disk allowing information about
archives to be obtained without having to have the tape
in the drive.
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-5.1.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/Linux/sources/sbin/taper-5.1.tar.gz
Approx 90K-100K
Requires: ncurses >= 1.9.6 with the forms library
Platforms: linux > 1.2.1
Copying-policy: GPL
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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
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin
and all mirrors
Current version 5.1 October, 1995
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