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- From: mike@donut.endicott.ibm.com ()
- Subject: Re: copy 8mm tape to 8 mm tape (using 2 tapedrives)
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.194034.36105@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:40:34 GMT
- Reply-To: kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com
- References: <1993Jan21.031737.21487@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Organization: IBM FSC Owego
- Keywords: 8mm, tape, 2 tape drives
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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
- |>
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- Use 'tcopy' ie. tcopy /dev/rmt0.1 /dev/rmt1.1
-
- I have had best results on boot tapes by using a BLOCK size of 0
- (variable length) that is changed via SMIT.
- But... it takes awhile!!
-
- Mike __ __o / "Everythin's IMHO,
- Kincer@owgvm6.vnet.ibm.com __ \<, / and nobody else's!"
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