topic Re: duplicate tapes in Operating System - HP-UX

duplicate tapes

Jimmy_13 — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:33:51 GMT

If i can two tape devices attached to mi server.
I can copy from tape to tape?

Re: duplicate tapes

Pete Randall — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:36:07 GMT

You might have to do some tuning of block sizes but dd should work:

dd if=/dev/rmt/0m of=/dev/rmt/1m

Pete

Re: duplicate tapes

Pete Randall — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:40:28 GMT

There is some further discussion/info in this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x5f6f972194d6d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Pete

Re: duplicate tapes

Ian Dennison_1 — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:42:22 GMT

Any particular reason why you want to do this?

If it is duplication of OmniBack Tapes for offsite purposes, you can copy them using the 'omnimcopy' command.

If you are backing up a mirror copy of data, it may be quicker to run the backup twice, instead of copying tapes.

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