backup tape clones

[Wesley Busdiecker]

I am looking for a solution to make duplicate copies of backup tapes. I do not wish to use Legato's clone function -- it is too slow. Sun has a system utility called "tcopy" that does a sector for sector copy of the tape. What I am looking for is something like tcopy running on HP-UX 11. Does anyone know of a tape utility like that?

Thanks, Wes

[Patrick Wallek]

There nothing like tcopy on HP-UX that I know of.

The only thing I can think of that you could do is something with dd.

Maybe something like:

dd if=/dev/rmt/0m of=/dev/rmt/1m bs=??k

Whatever you do, be sure you do plenty of testing so that you know you can recover from your cloned tape if you need to.