On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:03:33PM +0200, Claus-Justus Heine wrote:
> matthschulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there a way to read with Ditto Tools written tapes.
> > Even better meybe a GDittoTools for linux?
>
> No, AFAIK. At least there is no program to extract the files
> previously backed up by Ditto Tools. The raw data can be extracted,
> however.
Working on it.
> The Ditto Tools probably conform to the QIC-113 standard, so you can
Kind of. It appears to, but doesn't quite. Fortunately, I've been able
to figure most of it out.
> write such a program yourself. But this will be quite some work.
Reading is (compared to writing) easy. Writing is a different story; I
somehow have to get bad segment information while it's writing (seems
like a patch to ftape may be necessary, I haven't really looked into
it yet).
My plans currently only include reading. So far the decompression has
been a right pain; my implementation has been unreliable at best. I'm
still trying to iron the bugs out. Unfortunately I'm not sure that
they are all my bugs, as there is at least one error where Ditto Tools
doesn't follow the QIC standard as a result (not that Iomega/Tecmar
are at fault, they never said that they are following QIC :-(
It's nowhere near useable yet; I haven't done the easy bit, which is
the actual extraction given uncompressed results. That bit is
straightforward but will be a bit time consuming to code (which is why
I haven't got around to it yet :-)
BTW, no GDittoTools, my code is strictly commandline. Someone else can
do a GUI, as I won't use it :-)
Robie.
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