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Taper 5.6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Dec 12 01:37:55 1995
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 01:25:14 +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 5.6
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This is to announce a new version of taper, version 5.6.
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. With triple
buffering, and internal compression, backup performance is quite
good.
Major changes in Taper 5.6
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* New, very efficient, triple buffering process for backups.
* An internal compression routine. This is not as efficient as
gzip, but much much faster. You can still opt to use
gzip
* The buffering, combined with internal compression produces
a very much improved performance on backups
* Uncompressing of files in restore is done in the background
so restore performance is also much better
* Backups can be cleanly interrupted without affecting archive
integrity. Press Q or q while backing up.
Major changes in Taper 5.5
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* Support for latest version of zftape - v1.02 including using
the new GET_BLKSIZE ioctl. This means that you don't have to
worry about what block size an archive was made with - taper
automatically works it out. Also overcomes some problems
with the interaction between taper and zftape-1.02
* You can unselect a file from the top left windows in backup
and restore by pressing 'u'. You can still unselect from the
file selection window as well
* Couple of minor bug fixes
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Title: Taper
Version: 5.6
Entered-date: 07DEC95
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-5.6.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/Linux/sources/sbin/taper-5.6.tar.gz
Approx 150K-160K
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 5.6 December, 1995
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