TurboTar (TT) is a backup tool for SCSI Tapedrives. It handles 'offline' Indexfiles of your Tapes and accesses stored data quickly. TT uses 'gnutar' to perform backup and restore operations. So you can read the tapes on every platform on which 'gnutar' is available. As side effect you can parse in 'ls -Rl', 'gnutar -tv', 'ls -al' or whatever ASCII files. For example you can parse in the ASCII-Indexfile of your favorite FTP Site and browse through it in the TT filebrowser.
This is the first official release of TurboTar. It is still under development and there is a lot of stuff to do. This is a beta version cause the number of people who tested TurboTar is small ( < 10 ). Please test it with your system/hardware and return bugreports to me ( stefan@daisy.syd.de ).
Features in version 0.92beta:
- offline Indexfiles
- fast access to your data ( < 3 min. accesstime )
- Inspector for Indexfiles
- uses 'gnutar' & 'mt'
- remote tape access
- can access mounted devices ( NFS, CD-Rom ...)
- 'parse in' ASCII files ( even plain path/file information )
- export Indexfiles as 'ls -whatever' ( ASCII )
- various Filterfunctions ( Date/Time/Path filter )
- 'multi session' display in one browser
- Find Panel
- uses Drag & Drop
- multi threaded
- shows Tape activity in the AppIcon ( for local and remote
TapeDrives )
- automatic retry on SCSI errors
Tested configurations:
- HP-DAT drive
- NS on black/white hardware as remote/local system
- Linux as remote system
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Stefan Preuss stefan@daisy.syd.de NeXT mail welcome
