dd of fbackup volume

[Neil Haslum]

This is a re-worded question I asked last week.
We have a fbackup volume on DLT that we need to duplicate to a DLT on another server.
I have tried many variations of
dd if=/dev/rmt/1m | remsh dd of=/dev/rmt/1m
but it comes back very quickly (with no errors) but it obviously hasn't worked. Has anyone done this successfully?

[Brian M. Fisher]

Unfortunately, fbackup(1M) (and SAM) creates backup
volumes with a format that makes duplication of volumes by dd(1)
impossible.
per document#KBRC00001049
http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/

Brian
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[Andy Monks]

fbackup uses (if the tape drive supports it) fast search marks. This is why you can't copy them easily. I recall a program that could, but will limited success.

One way round this is to do :-

fbackup -f localhost:

Using the hostname (or localhost), tells fbackup it's going across a network. Therefore, it doesnt' write FSM's on the tape.

It might work. Not using FSM's will slow down recovery of individual files/directory