The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide - File System Interface
ftape-4.05 introduces a major incompatibility w.r.t. to backup sets written bye ftape-3.04d. The compression support has vanished. See ftape-3.04d's builtin compression (info file ftape). See ftape-3x compatibility.
You still shouldn't use tar -czf ...
to produce compressed backup
sets as tar
compresses the entire archive as a single byte
stream; a single clobbered byte at the beginning of the data stream make
it almost impossible to recover the remainder of the archive.
Use a more elaborate backup system instead. The
contains some links.
Note: Decompression of compressed archives written by ftape-3.04d and earlier versions is still supported.
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