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:
> 
> [15:37:44]root@anubis:/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.

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