taper: Taper is a backup and restoration program with a friendly user taper: interface. Files may be backed up to a tape drive or to a hard disk. taper: The interface for selecting files to be backed up/restored is very taper: similar to the Midnight Commander interface, and allows easy traversal taper: of directories. Taper supports recursive selection of directories. taper: Taper also supports backing up SCSI, ftape, zftape and removable drives. taper: By default, taper is set for incremental backups and automatic most taper: recent restore.