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Taper 5.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Nov 13 16:08:08 1995
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 23:13:41 +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 5.3
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This is to announce the release of taper 5.3 which provides a user friendly
interface for backing up and restoring to tape drives (and regular
files). Amongst the features supported are incremental backups, most
recent restore, and multiple tape archives. SCSI and floppy tape drives
are supported. Below is a list of the major changes from 5.1 and also the
LSM entry.
Major changes from Taper 5.2 to Taper 5.3
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* New option (--archive-diff) allows you to print the files
that have changed since an archive was made.
* You can now select files for backup and restore from the
top right window (what's currently on the archive window)
Major changes from Taper 5.1 to Taper 5.2
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* When backing up using compression, now sets up a background
process to compress files, resulting in faster throughput to
tape.
* Much faster at calculating directory sizes
* Much faster handling of most recent restore option. The downside
is that the most recent file is assumed to be on the most recent
volume. This is the case 99.999% of the time, but very rarely,
for some reason, an old version of a file may be on a later
volume. If this is the case, taper won't pick it up - you'll have
to do it manually.
* Linuxdoc-sgml is used for documentation so that a postscript,
info, tex or html doc file can be generated. A plain ASCII text
file (as well as SGML source file) is supplied so that people
without the linuxdoc-sgml package can still have some
documentation.
* An option in the Makefile allows you to compile either a fast
but memory & resource hungry taper, or a slower but much less
of a memory demanding program.
* Less allocation and reallocation of memory blocks resulting in
improved performance and reduced system load
* Will create the file set directory if it doesn't exist
* When doing a restore on a particular volume, will not show
empty directories but descend straight to a directory
that has entries in it. Can be over-ridden with a new
option (--auto-descend)
* Major backup bug corrected.
* You can print the directory of any archive, not just the archive
of the tape currently in the tape drive
* Major restore bug fixed with regard to missing volumes
* In restore, when selecting a directory, will calculate the directory
size taking into account most recent restore.
* The usual bug fixes & minor changes (see CHANGES file for details)
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Title: Taper
Version: 5.3
Entered-date: 11NOV95
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-5.3.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/Linux/sources/sbin/taper-5.3.tar.gz
Approx 130K-140K
Platforms: linux > 1.2.1
ncurses >= 1.9.6 with the forms library
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 5.3 November, 1995
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