[SunHELP] make a backupcopy?

[Björn Ramqvist]

Yikes.
Just found out that my DAT-drive on the Sun refuses to talk to me. =(
I've got several HP's here though.

Anyone familiar with HP-UX and copying DAT-tapes? :-)

/Bjorn

"Fletcher, Joe" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> check out tcopy.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjrn Ramqvist [mailto:brt at osk.sema.se]
> Sent: 22 January 2001 15:24
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] make a backupcopy?
> 
> Geez.. I hate to admit, but I need some help on this.
> How on earth do I easily make a copy of a DAT-tape?
> I tried DD'ing to a file and DD it over to another tape, but without
> success. Anyone have a clue?
> There may be multiple files on the tapes, and it could be either TAR or
> CPIO format on these... (I'd much rather take a simple whole-tape copy
> of it)
> 
> /Bjorn
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