Absolutely - If you are on solaris, use tcopy to get an exact dup.

-Tom


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From: George Sinclair [mailto:George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 2:35 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Creating a dump of a legato tape?


We all know that you can clone a NetWorker volume which is really just
cloning all the savesets, but does anyone if you can use something like
'dd' to dump the contents of a NetWorker labeled tape to something like
tar and then re - 'dd' it back to another "blank" tape?

In essence, I'm trying to determine if it's possible to create an exact
copy of a NetWorker labeled tape without using NetWorker. Seems it would
be faster than cloning since it would not have to un-multi-plex
anything. It could just read and write. Data is data so why wouldn't it
work? Obviously, NetWorker would not have to be aware that the duplicate
tape existed, until you used it in which case it would just think it was
the original. Would they not be interchangeable?

Alternatively, if the NetWorker label on the source tape proves a
problem then might it be possible to somehow skip past this part of the
source tape, create a new labeled tape and then dump everything else on
the original tape that comes after the label to the new labeled (copy)
tape.

Would be curious to know if anyone has experimented with this and how
you did it.

Thanks.

George

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