best way to copy a tape

[Brian Bartley]

All,
I have a dds drive and a dlt drive. I'd like to do a tape-to-tape copy of a dds tape to dlt. What's the best way to accomplish this? Should I use fbackup, dd, pax? Thanks,
Brian

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

See this thread, Brian:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1044580


Pete

[A. Clay Stephenson]

This is one of those, "it depends" questions --- and the answer may be that "you can't" depending upon the original backup. For example, if this is an fbackup image then a tape to tape xfer can't be done because of the variable size blocking; in that case, you would have to do a restore to disk using frecover and then a new fbackup. If this is a tar or cpio image then things are much easier and dd will suffice.