https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/unix-commands/m-p/284718#M127614 Is it possible to copy data on a tape from 1 dat drive to another dat drive in Unix? If so, do you know the commands?<BR />What about copying from the dat tape across the network (access the dat drive from a remote machine)?<BR />What about only using a single dat drive to copy off one tape and copy back to another?<BR /><BR />The situation is we have backups on old dat tapes that needs to be moved to new dat tapes to maintain data integrity.<BR /><BR />Thanks, Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:23:16 GMT Brian Butler_3 2003-11-25T15:23:16Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/unix-commands/m-p/284718#M127614 Is it possible to copy data on a tape from 1 dat drive to another dat drive in Unix? If so, do you know the commands?<BR />What about copying from the dat tape across the network (access the dat drive from a remote machine)?<BR />What about only using a single dat drive to copy off one tape and copy back to another?<BR /><BR />The situation is we have backups on old dat tapes that needs to be moved to new dat tapes to maintain data integrity.<BR /><BR />Thanks, Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:23:16 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/unix-commands/m-p/284718#M127614 Brian Butler_3 2003-11-25T15:23:16Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/unix-commands/m-p/284719#M127615 are you using HP-UX?<BR /><BR />i'm pretty sure you can't copy from 1 tape to another, but if you have free disk space, then you can copy the tape's contents onto a hard drive, and then onto another tape.<BR /><BR />use the dd command to do this.<BR /> Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:47:59 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/unix-commands/m-p/284719#M127615 CA916338 2003-11-26T11:47:59Z