Will there be tar support?

samuelncui / yatm

Yet Another Tape Manager - Full Functional Tape Management System with Web User Interface

BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License

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Open donmor opened 2 months ago

donmor commented 2 months ago

Tar is an open format and is easy to use (with tar c(x)vf /dev/st0 ... ). It can support lto4 and older tape/drives, which are much cheaper.

Edit: tar tapes can even be accessed on windows using cygwin.

donmor commented 2 months ago

Hmm... Someone mentioned STFS in #5 which is based on tar.