nytpu on Nostr: On one wing, it's a really good idea to just stick with widely-supported standard ...

On one wing, it's a really good idea to just stick with widely-supported standard file formats using a very mature and stable utility when doing long-term archiving; but on the other wing I really want to make my own format for tape archiving that lets you store a copy of *all* the metadata on your computer as well as the tape, so you can browse the archives and see everything and even queue up operations, and the only time you need to load a tape is to get the file contents.

(I'm just annoyed at being stuck with my only online record of my archives the annoyingly-formatted text files created from tar's verbose output lol)