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- From: grefen@convex.com (Stefan Grefen)
- Subject: Re: copy 8mm tape to 8 mm tape (using 2 tapedrives)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.091205.15576@convex.com>
- Keywords: 8mm, tape, 2 tape drives
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- References: <1993Jan21.031737.21487@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <1993Jan21.132011.17632@socrates.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:12:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.132011.17632@socrates.umd.edu>, christes@socrates.umd.edu (Skip Christensen) writes:
- |> 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
- Or get ddd (use archive to locate it comp.unix.sources around 1988) ,
- it's a very fast dd replacement
- (and good example for using unix .... its pure fun to read
- the code, at it take some time to understand why it works).
- Regards
- Stefan
-