Z:gnu-www-ja-testimonial research ships--f17b5a-The solution? GNU tar. GNU ta/en

The solution? GNU tar. GNU tar has allowed us to do two things in one go: to split backups across more than one tape, and to connect directly to an IBM 3590 tape drive on another workstation for larger capacity. This was made possible, too, by the well-written application code whose GUI merely calls a shell script, and by some of the basic modularity of Unix. But without GNU tar it could not have been done. A two kilo-euro investment in software, hardware, training, and installtion on the vessel has been rescued from obselescence by me&mdash;with some help from GNU tar.