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Taper 6.1 (tape backup program)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jan 13 17:46:00 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 21:18:07 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Yusuf Nagree <yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk>
Reply-To: yusuf@mail.bogo.co.uk
Subject: Taper 6.1 (tape backup program)
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This is to announce a new version of taper, version 6.1
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.
Taper supports ftape, zftape, scsi, floppies and regular files.
In addition, taper also supports removable media such as the IOMEGA
ZIP drives and IDE tape drives in ALPHA stage.
Major changes in Taper 6.1
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* The ability to automatically exclude directories in the backup
(eg. /tmp and /usr/tmp)
* New utility to test if your tape drive needs tapes to be
prepared with Make tape before use
* Limit the size the log file can grow to
* Lot of bug fixes, including one major one where files were
disappearing after running mkinfo/check archive
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Title: Taper
Version: 6.1
Entered-date: 31DEC95
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 hard disk 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. SCSI, ftape,
and zftape drives are supported (ide tape drives
and removable media in ALPHA stage).
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-6.1.tar.gz
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/Linux/sources/sbin/taper-6.1.tar.gz
Approx 160K-170K
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 6.1 December, 1995
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