tape to tape copy

[Bob McGowen x4312 dept208]

In article <1205 at manta.NOSC.MIL> bigjohn at manta.NOSC.MIL (John Morris) writes:
>Problem: copying a tape that is in "boot" format.
>One method involves the 'dd' command but this involves having enough
>disk space to accomodate the file.
>Question: Is there a way, if you have two cartridge tape drives, to
>directly move the data from one tape onto the other through a reasonable 
>size buffer.

You could still use dd as follows:

   dd if=/dev/src_tape of=/dev/dest_tape bs=1024k
					    ^^^^

The buffer used in the above is 1M, substitute as you can for larger or
smaller.  The if above is the input_file, of is the output_file.

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Bob McGowan  (standard disclaimer, these are my own ...)
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