Tarchive is a DOS command-line tape archiver program for the Exabyte 8500 or8505 tape drives operating in the 4.9 GByte mode. This program is meant toreplace the TAR program and enhance it by using some of the specificfeatures of the EXB-8500 family of tape drives. With pascal sourcecode.
Introduction:
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Tarchive is a DOS command-line tape archiver program for the Exabyte 8500 or 8505 tape drives operating in the 4.9 GByte mode. This program is meant to replace the TAR program and enhance it by using some of the specific features of the EXB-8500 family of tape drives. This means that this program will not work with the older Exabyte 8200 drives since they do not support
the SCSI-commands used by Tarchive. DAT drives should however work, if they support block-seek commands (this is not tested). Tarchive is not TAR compatible, but uses its own format for increased speed and security of the archiving process. Also provided are sources for a tape-erase program and a simple file archiver.
Features:
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* fast save and backup operation through use of buffering mode and large blocksize
* directory information of each saveset is kept with saveset for quicker access of individual files
* fast file retrieval by use of direct data-block search
* increased data security by use of a magic code in header and a checksum
* advanced error checking implemented for Exabyte drives
* extensive error logging possible
* filename-list mode for simple interfacing with other programs
* tape erase/conditioning program is included
Disadvantages
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* the format is not TAR compatible
* does not store path information
* number of files per saveset limited (approx. 15 thousand)
File List:
ARC.PAS
20Kb
ARCHIV.PAS
1Kb
ASPI.PAS
20Kb
COPYRIGH
458b
GADGETS.PAS
4Kb
LOGFILE.PAS
1Kb
README
6Kb
TAPEARC.PAS
13Kb
TAPESERV.PAS
3Kb
TARCHIV.PAS
5Kb
TERASE.PAS
2Kb
TIME2SEC.PAS
1Kb
TOOLBOX.PAS
2Kb
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