On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:02:12PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:54:27PM -0700, Joshua D. Bello wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

Thanks to everybody for their suggestions.  I tried the tcopy solution
first, because it appeared to be the easiest.  This command is present
on FreeBSD and worked exactly as advertised.  

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Joshua D. Bello <josh AT nextrials DOT com>
Systems Administrator
Nextrials, Inc.  +1-925-415-8957