Z:gnu-www-ja-testimonial research ships--bff423-I work on research ships, main/en

I work on research ships, mainly deep seismic acquisition, but other types as well. The story I am about to tell is of a single piece of GNU software. Tar. For many years we have been using systems with disk stacks containing disks no more than 3 Gb in size, and the application code has facilities to span data across disks. But for backup, it calls a shell script which calls tar. And does so on a disk-by-disk basis. We have been taring to Exabyte 2500 drives, and fortunately no one disk was bigger than would fit on a tar tape.