Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 20:33:53 -0400 From: Lone Star Software <press@cactus.com> To: www@freebsd.org Subject: Announcing LONE-TAR v4.2.0 Message-ID: <20060518003353.GA2829@lonestar.cactus.com>
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LONE STAR SOFTWARE CORP.
ANNOUNCES
LONE-TAR v4.2
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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LONE STAR SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES LONE-TAR(r) Version 4.2
MOUNT AIRY, MD (May 17, 2006) - Lone Star Software
Corporation is pleased to announce LONE-TAR Version
4.2; A complete backup and disaster recovery
solution for systems running SCO UNIX(r), Linux(r)
and FreeBSD(r).
This version of LONE-TAR includes new, easy to use
features such as the BZIP2 compression, Increased
Backup Speeds and Enhanced Data Encryption.
These features allow for secure and efficient backups
to be made with minimal setup and deployment times.
NEW FEATURES in v4.2:
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o BZIP2 Compression - Feature allows compression ratios
of 3 to 1 or even 4 to 1 to be achieved.
o Super-Fast Backup option - The number of files on a
system is growing exponentially. Therefore, it is no
longer practical to show on the screen each and every
file name. Additionally, for millions of files, this
can consume excess CPU power and slow the backup
down. This can increase your screen performance by
15% to 20% in many cases. The catalog file still
retains the names of each and every file.
o Automatic Expansion of Compressed TAR Archives -
Includes support for tar.gz, tar.Z & *.taz archives.
If you have an archive such as mypackage.taz;
'lone-tar xvfb my package.taz 20'; will automatically
extract the files out of this archive. This is quite
useful for dealing with these types of files.
Additionally, it is quite useful when you are very
tight on disk space and it would require more disk
space than you have to uncompress and selectively
extract a few select files.
o Over 2Gb support for Non-Tape Archives on 32 bit
platforms - Most 32 bit platforms traditionally
support only files up to 2Gb. Therefore, if you are
backing up data to a NFS partition (where the actual
files exist on a SUN/HP/RS machine), LONE-TAR will
now not stop at the 2Gb limit. Instead, it will keep
archiving data until the backup is complete. The
size of the archive in these cases can exceed 4Gb and
will be the same as the total amount of data to be
backed up.
o Reports the number of files NOT restored - The new
LONE-TAR will now report the number of files "not"
restored. This is the most critical piece of
information you need to know when doing a restore.
Were are my files restored and if not, why not?
You need to know how many files were affected.
o Elapsed Time on Restore and Verify - Now not only are
backup times reported, but verify and restore times
are also reported. This is a useful piece of
information. Some people want to know how long the
bit-level verifies are taking and this is a good way
of finding out. The times reported do not include
the time waiting for user or juke box to switch
volumes. It is only the time reading the media.
o TAPE LABEL supports many new field types - New
variables are now available that will allow
for a customized TAPE LABEL.
o SCO over 4Gb raw partition support - LONE-TAR now
supports over 4Gb partitions under SCO. In general
SCO has a limitation of 2Gb files. In the past, by
using the block raw partition, you could exceed the
2Gb barrier up to 4Gb. LONE-TAR v4.2 exceeds this
SCO barrier on both a backup and a restore.
o Restore Optimization - New restore "Optimization"
will create a directory, in ADVANCE of restoring data,
of the correct size, and with the proper number of
blocks. Otherwise, directories themselves are
restored fragmented.
o Plus many more script and program enhancements and
improvements.
Availability:
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o Supported Operating Systems:
- Linux
- SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 and greater
- SCO OpenServer 6.0 (crash recovery available soon)
- FreeBSD 5.x
- FreeBSD 6.x
o LONE-TAR v4.2 is available via our international
network of value added resellers and distributors.
Quantity discounts, pricing incentives and
competitive upgrades are available, as well as
personal home editions and corporate site licenses.
o Technical support is included for one full year,
which includes 24 x 7 disaster recovery support at no
additional cost.
o Data Encryption feature is currently available
for $119.00 This new feature is built into the
LONE-TAR binary [/bin/lone-tar].
o Please contact our Sales office for additional
pricing information at 800-525-8649 or by email at
sales@cactus.com. Also, fully functional evaluation
copies are available from the Lone Star Software
Corporation web site at http://www.cactus.com.
About Lone Star Software Corporation:
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Lone Star Software Corp. has been serving the
UNIX/Linux community with leading edge backup solutions
along with outstanding 24 x 7 technical support for
over two decades. For more information, visit us at
http://www.cactus.com, contact Lone Star Software Sales
at 800-525-8649, or by emailing us at sales@cactus.com.
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Copyright (c)2006 Lone Star Software Corp. - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LONE-TAR, RESCUE-RANGER and AIR-BAG are registered trademarks of
Lone Star Software Corp.
TAPE-TELL and CRONY are trademarks of Lone Star Software Corp.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders
Press Release
Volume 16, May 17, 2006
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