On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:54:27PM -0700, Joshua D. Bello wrote: > Greetings! I'm having a bit of difficulty and I haven't yet found any > info in the list archives that has helped me to solve this problem. > > I'm currently attempting to copy the contents of a 35GB DLT-IV > (DLT7000) tape over to an SDLT-320 tape. The DLT-IV tape is not readable > on my SDLT drive, and contains some old Amanda backups that I would like > to be able to access after we get rid of our DLT-IV drive. > > I am attempting to copy from one tape to another using dd, and getting > the following results: > > [15:37:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/local0/tmp# dd bs=32k if=/dev/rsa1 of=/dev/rsa0 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 32768 bytes transferred in 1.628442 secs (20122 bytes/sec)
Others got the need to loop. However, depending on your OS, you may have a command specifically for that purpose. Solaris has a little known "tcopy" command. Kinda neat. Given 2 args it copies from one to the other. Give one arg, it reports for each file the record sizes and number of records. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
