taper Taper is a tape backup and restore program that allows backing/restoring files to a tape drive.
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Taper is a tape backup and restore program that allows backing/restoring files to a tape drive. Taper is a tape backup and restore program that provides a friendly user interface to allow backing/restoring files to a tape drive.Taper is an easy to use backup solution for Linux.It allows backups to tape drives, filesystems, floppy drives, removable devices... In fact, any device that Linux supports.Incremental backup & selective restores are available, as well as backup verifies.Archive catalogs are kept on the hard-drive to enable speedy selective restores and incremental backups. In the event of total hard disk failures, these catalogs can be reconstructed from the archive. Catalogs are not required for a full restore.Taper is ncurses based which means that it can be used in a console window or in an X-Term (or equivalent) under X.

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