It's A Digital Disease!

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PSA: There is a sensible, open source CLI tape backup tool for Windows called tapectl (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/mattbee on 2025-06-11 23:39:17.

This anonymous project deserves more attention than it's got - tapectl.

It's a tastefully-designed command-line tool for controlling LTO drives from Windows. It absolutely works. Unlike almost every other GUI tool I tried on Windows, it gets buffering right, so there's very little shoe-shining by default.

It doesn't do any archiving or cataloguing itself. So you need to feed it a .zip file (or several). But it'll just write and mark however many files you give it.

I'd nearly given up building a simple command-line tape workflow on Windows, so was really pleased to find it.

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