Tolis tape tools

If you break LTFS, who do you call? As for being open source, anyone can get the spec and base source and create their own version of LTFS. This results in the "too many cooks in the kitchen" scenario, and that has happened in that there are over 22 different versions of LTFS at last count, and many don't play well with one another, in spite of what the marketing would like to have you believe.

As for having the code available under an open source license, are you a low-level C programmer? Do you have the skill set and tape hardware knowledge to take on the responsibility for the LTFS code in your organization? A very important question to consider before you let the "concept" of open source seem to be a positive for any solution, not just LTFS.

It all sounds great in discussion, but in practical application, you want to use tools that provide the best solution for your task. You also want to be able to depend on the solution and the team s responsible for that solution. To revisit, who do you call if your open source product doesn't work? We've placed the BRU source code in escrow with many of our major clients and offer it to others if their dependence on the actual product is that strictly regulated.

The result is that in this case, the source code would be available to those organizations for continued development. Or, what if the principles decide they'd rather go fishing or racing than continue the business? In that case, we have a clause in our corporate structure where we would release the source code under the BSD open source license to the world.

How do you share BRU archives? Wouldn't you rather relax at night knowing that your data is safely archived and that help is just an email or phone call away if something gets sideways? Lastly, why should I be concerned about the data format? Isn't tape just like disk?

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Proceeding with communications, orders, and interactions between yourself and TOLIS Group is indication that you understand and agree with this statement. Read and write tar and cpio tapes on macOS. TOLIS Tape Tools is a set of command line data migration utilities that enable the transfer of the contents of any tar , cpio , or pax -formatted tapes onto a macOS system, regardless of platform where the tapes were originally written i.

Linux, Solaris, etc. TOLIS Tape Tools is also what is used to recover any tar -based archives to macOS that were written in any product, closed or open source, that uses tar as its archival format. Looking for a restore-all product? By using the tar , cpio , or pax utilities embedded in macOS, the archived data can be accurately restored onto a macOS system.

TOLIS Tape Tools utilities are operated from the command line, are fully scriptable, and also support the writing of raw tar , cpio , and pax data streams to tape under macOS. The tapecopy utility enables the duplication of tapes under macOS. Need a tape device to do it?