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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!socrates!christes
- From: christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen)
- Subject: Re: copy 8mm tape to 8 mm tape (using 2 tapedrives)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.132011.17632@socrates.umd.edu>
- Keywords: 8mm, tape, 2 tape drives
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <1993Jan21.031737.21487@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:20:11 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1993Jan21.031737.21487@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen) writes:
- >I would like to attach for a while a second 8 tape
- >drive so that I can copy data from one tape
- >to the other. Does anybody have any ideas about
- >which command to use for this?
- >
- >e.g. tar (and than pipe it to the second 8mm drive?)
- >or dd ??
- >
- >Any help is more than welcome.
- >
- >Greetings
- >Louis Verhagen Vla@waves.ce.adfa.oz.au
- >
-
-
- You said you have two tapes -- both 8mm. Let's assume one is
- rmt0 and the other rmt1. Use the tcopy command, e.g.
-
- tcopy /dev/rmt0 /dev/rmt1
-
- ensure both are working at same block size
-