Copying a depot tape.

[Ron Peters_3]

Hello,

I have a software depot tape that I'd like to copy to another tape. Is there a simple way of doing this?

Thanks in advance.
Ron.

[Leif Halvarsson_2]

Hi
If you have two tape drives you can use the "dd" command "dd if=/dev/rmt/0m of=/dev/rmt/1m" .

Have a look at the man page for dd (man dd).

[Anu Mathew]

Hi Ron,

How about dumping the entire tape to another one?

dd if=/dev/rmt/0m of=/bigfile

Then insert a new blank tape and

dd if=/bigile of=/dev/rmt/0m

Choose device names according to your system layout.

HTH,

~AM

[Wodisch]

Hi Ron,

using "dd" as shown by the first two replies is one (and simple) solution, but you do not know wether the "new" tape really contains a valid depot...
If you do have the diskspace for this, you can "swcopy" everything from the "original" tape to a new directory (read: disk depot) and from there to the "new" tape using "swpackage".
Be careful to use all the needed "-x" options, though...
Oh, and that way you do have to opportunity to add something to that (disk) depot, like new patches!

HTH,
Wodisch

[Joseph A Benaiah_1]

Ron,

You can swpackage to copy a depot to tape as follows:

swpackage -s /var/adm/sw/depot -d /dev/rmt/0m -x target_type=tape \*

Cheers,

Joseph.