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Taper 5.5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Fri Dec 8 01:35:43 1995
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 21:24:15 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Yusuf Nagree <yusuf@localhost.bogo.co.uk>
Reply-To: yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
Subject: Taper 5.5
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This is to announce a new version of taper, version 5.5.
Taper is a user friendly, full featured tape backup solution for Linux.
Multiple features are supported including most recent restore, incremental
backups, archive verification and archive management.
New in 5.5
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Changes
In main menu, put Check archive after mkinfo to reflect its
action
Exit key from preferences (default F10) can be changed in
common.h
No .. entry provided if in root directory for backup/file set
Enabled support for get block size ioctl of zftape - if you
are going to use zftape, you must use at least version 1.02
Can now unselect from the top directory window in backup. If
the file is indirectly selected, then an error is printed.
Similarly, can unselect from restore menu.
Unselecting a file has changed from `d' to `u'.
Fixed problem with zftape-1.02 and taper interaction. Causing
multiple "unknown tape data" errors. Downside is that it
takes longer to identify a tape.
Bug fixes
Fixed a couple of compile time warnings - they were only warnings
Problem if information messages, etc. were too long for
message boxes
Seg fault when trying to load a file set
Bug in testzero caused a segfault
Was ignoring all files if the exclusion list was empty. Same
with the compression list.
Not setting the SCSI default block size correctly
Incorrectly adding the size of directory entries (not directory
contents) to backup sizes
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Title: Taper
Version: 5.5
Entered-date: 03DEC95
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. Support for zftape is also included.
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-5.5.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/Linux/sources/sbin/taper-5.5.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 5.5 December, 1995
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