TarFront
Here you'll find new versions and updates
of the OS/2 Warp PM front-end for GTAR and GTAK.
Current State
Development of TarFront has been suspended for a long time now, and
it's not likely that this will change very soon, as my spare time
doesn't allow for such a project any longer. Worse, I am no longer running OS/2. The buglist is still
rather long and there's an unpublished "alpha-level" version with
quite a few new features, but these will not be fixed/released before I
haven't reworked TarFront to remove some major design flaws. This in turn will,
as stated above, take a long time or will (more likely) never happen.
Despite pending bugfixes, you can use TarFront as long as it doesn't
show too much buggy behaviour at your actual installation; since it
relies on TAR to do the real work chances are pretty small that
backups will be unusable (i.e., unrestorable). If - because of whatever
reason - TarFront isn't able to restore your files, you should always
be able to restore backups using this command:
tar -xpp --posix
(Note the two dashes with "--posix".) Of course, wind the tape to the
correct position first using "tape file x", "tape rew" and/or "tape
end". If you change any of the critical settings in the
configuration notebook, be sure to write them down somewhere (you
should do this anyway since you won't be able to use TarFront from a
boot floppy).
Download Version 2.3 (about 1.1 MB)
Features of 2.3
- PM frontend for GTAR/GTAK
- Supports backup and restore on streamers, hard disk drives, floppy disks, and files
- Easy usage
- All TAR parameters can be accessed comfortably through a notebook
- Most TAPE commands accessible through a menu
New since 2.2
- Fixed: all known bugs
- Improved: don't need to confirm each volume when restoring
- Improved: handling of deletion of tapes (including tape directories)
- Added: verify (for HDDs etc.)
- Added: "tape tell" in menu
- Added: "Save" and "Autosave" in menu
- Added: "tape blocksize x" before each operation (optional)
- Added: multivolume support
- Added: can now ask for confirmation for each file when restoring/backing up
History
Version 1.0b
- First release
- Backup only
Version 2.0b
- Fixed: all known bugs
- Improved: tar settings notebook
- Improved: documentation
- Improved: error recovery
- Added: german language (program only)
- Added: restore
- Added: toolbars
- Added: integrated tar/tape output
- Added: misc. features
Version 2.1
- Fixed: all known bugs (almost)
- Improved: documentation
- Improved: WPS folder
- Improved: scanning of removable drives disabled
- Added: support for virtually all versions of TAR tape directories.
- This is no longer a BETA program.
Version 2.2
- Fixed: most bugs
- Improved: scanning of old TAR tape directory files
- Improved: restore module (complete rewrite) - manages large files without using much RAM now
- Improved: documentation
- Changed: the DLLs have been renamed to more unique names
- Added: ability to extract from archives without volume names (:hp5.not fully tested yet:ehp5.)
- Added: can kill processes now
- Added: names of TAR/TAPE can be adjusted
- Added: file date and time are now displayed in the restore container
- Added: asks for .TFN file if none is given on the command line
- Added: several small features
Ekkehard Krämer (
ekraemer@pluto.camelot.de)