Taper

Yusuf Nagree

1. Disclaimer

2. Warning

3. Introduction

4. Requirements

5. Unpacking and Compiling

• 5.1 File locations
• 5.2 Modifying defaults.h

6. Terminology

7. Tape Devices

8. Tape drives

• 8.1 ftape
• 8.2 zftape
• 8.3 SCSI Drives
• 8.4 IDE tape drives
• 8.5 Floppies and other removable media

9. Quick fast forwards

10. Can seek

11. Formatting and Erasing Tapes

12. /proc Filesystem

13. Compression

14. Running Taper

• 14.1 Command line options
• 14.2 Backup Module
• 14.3 Restore
• 14.4 Recreate info file
• 14.5 Verify archive
• 14.6 Utilities

15. Unattended Backup

16. File Sets

• 16.1 File Set format

17. Environment variables

18. Preferences

• 18.1 Changing preferences
• 18.2 Saving preferences
• 18.3 Preference file format
• 18.4 Special preferences

19. Screen Colours

20. Multiple Tape Backups

• 20.1 Writing
• 20.2 Reading

21. Cross platform support

22. Limitations

23. Bugs

24. Major bugs in early versions

25. Finally