Tom, No guarantees, but you might try something like:
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind mt -f /dev/nst1 rewind while dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/dev/nst1 bs=32k; do done; In general, if you want Amanda to write two copies of your data, you should use the RAIT driver. Cheers, --Ian On Monday 17 April 2006 15:35, Tom Schutter wrote: > I was wondering if anyone can tell be the best way to duplicate an > Amanda tape on a Linux box. I will have two identical tape drives. I > would much prefer to use standard UNIX commands. The program "tcopy" > would be perfect, but it is not available on Debian, it a google search > indicates that is has problems. > I would think that "dd" could do the trick, but what is the correct > incantation? -- Forums for Amanda discussion: http://forums.zmanda.com/
