2 Title: Tool to maintain tar tape archives and control compression.
4 Description: Once you have recorded the record number of each file of
5 a tar scsi-tape archive, you are able to find and extract these
6 files very fast. If you have a DAT drive, you can extract every
7 small file from a 2GB tape within 40 seconds.
8 tar2tar is included to change the pathnames inside a tar-archive.
9 Author: weule@7b5.de (J"org Weule)
10 Maintained-by: weule@7b5.de
11 Primary-Site: sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/system/backup
12 LENGTH dds2tar-VERSION.tar.gz
13 Alternate-Site:www.eulesoft.de
14 LENGTH dds2tar-VERSION.tar.gz
15 Platforms: Linux and HP (because of the TELL and SEEK command)
16 HP is not well supported.
19 Keywords: tape archives , tar
20 Comment: The software is only convenient, if your tape supports a fast
22 Added code (mt-dds) to change the compression mode of HP-DAT.
23 tar2tar will work on every computer with ANSI-C.
24 A patch to GNU-tar is included to add the option --record-file.