Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:46:56 -0500 (EST) From: av556@detroit.freenet.org (Kenneth M. Howlett) To: linux-tape@vger.kernel.org, linux-announce@sws1.ctd.ornl.gov Subject: announcing Paranoid Backup Paranoid Backup is a backup program for Linux. Paranoid Backup is designed to work with cheap tape drives and cheap tapes without shoeshining or losing data; to never overwrite old backups; and to use as few tapes as possible. It has easy to understand documentation and error messages. It is probably slower than other backup programs. Paranoid Backup includes kxarc, an archive program, and a tape server program which can be used by themselves. Conventional archive programs like tar manage both the archive and the tape; I made one program to manage the archive and a different program to manage the tape; if you are working on tape interfaces, you may be interested in how I did that. Everything is written in perl 5, so there is no C source or compiled binaries, just these scripts. You can download this from http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/backup/ paranoidbackup-1.0.tar.gz or http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/backup/ paranoidbackup-1.0.tar.gz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tape" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org