Tom,

No guarantees, but you might try something like:

mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nst1 rewind
while dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/dev/nst1 bs=32k; do done;

In general, if you want Amanda to write two copies of your data, you should 
use the RAIT driver.

Cheers,

--Ian

On Monday 17 April 2006 15:35, Tom Schutter wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone can tell be the best way to duplicate an
> Amanda tape on a Linux box.  I will have two identical tape drives.  I
> would much prefer to use standard UNIX commands.  The program "tcopy"
> would be perfect, but it is not available on Debian, it a google search
> indicates that is has problems.
> I would think that "dd" could do the trick, but what is the correct
> incantation?

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