One could also try "bpduplicate"-ing the original tape to another one.


Regards,
Mike Ellwood



> If your running Solaris, you could try the  'tcopy' command.
> From the man pages -
> 
> NAME
>       tcopy - copy a magnetic tape
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>       tcopy source [destination]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>       The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape  mounted  on  the
>       tape  drive  specified  by  the  source  argument.  The only
>       assumption made about the contents of a tape is  that  there
>       are two tape marks at the end.
> 
>       When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape,
>       and displays information about the sizes of records and tape
>       files.  If a destination is specified, tcopy makes a  copies
>       the  source  tape  onto  the destination tape, with blocking
>       preserved. As it copies, tcopy produces the same  output  as
>       it does when only scanning a tape.
> 
>       The tcopy utility requires the  use  of  Berkeley-compatible
>       device names. For example,
> 
>       example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b
> 
> hth
> 
> best
> 
> 
> >>On 5/15/06, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz.backup AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>All,
> >>
> >>I ran a restore last week which was on three tapes, on the
> second tape
> >>it failed due to an I/O error, I repeated the restore and the same
> >>result occurred.
> >>
> >>I ran bpverify on the backup image ID and it said
> everything was OK,
> >>obviously this is not a good way to test a tape's integrity!
> >>
> >>Is there a way to restore all files to /dev/null?
> >>
> >>Justin.
> >>
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