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[Veritas-bu] using dd to dupilcate tapes

2002-02-21 17:12:37
Subject: [Veritas-bu] using dd to dupilcate tapes
From: nhunt AT lehman DOT com (Noel Lindsay Hunt)
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 07:12:37 +0900
> If you are using dd command, you can not have duplicate image files in your
> catalog. you can only duplicate the whole tape.
>
> manually mount the tapes to the different drives, and run:
>
> dd if=<driver device filename where the original tape locates> of=<driver
> device filename where the new tape locates>

If you have the Berkeley `tcopy' (in /usr/bin in Solaris) you
should use that. It will preserve the block structure of the
original. I'm not sure if dd will.

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