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Old 10-11-2006, 06:08 AM
Dirk Moolman
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Is it possible to dd an ontape backup from one tape to another, to make
a copy of it ?







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Old 10-11-2006, 06:19 AM
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Hello Dirk,

yes providing that you use the blocksize

TAPEBLK where the ontape backup was created with
ex: 128K

dd if=somedev of=someotherdev ibs=128k obs=128k

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