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Re: How duplicate tape using two SDLT320 ?

 

How duplicate tape using two SDLT320 ?

Sir :

I using the command "dd if=/dev/ntape/tape1 of=/dev/ntape/tape2 bs=10k"

to duplicate tape , but it seems fail ,the result below :
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

no error message ,our environment is tru64 5.1B
Could you help me to solve it ?
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V. Nyga
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Re: How duplicate tape using two SDLT320 ?

Hi,

do you know what's on the tape?
Be sure that you take the raw device files for if and of.
Ann block size (bs) should be bigger - 1024k at minimum.

HTH
Volkmar
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generic_1
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Re: How duplicate tape using two SDLT320 ?

http://forums2.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=775270

DD not going to work right.
Ready the above thread.