Sys-Admin Information's » Tape http://sysinfo.bascomp.org Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:43:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Copy Tape to Tape http://sysinfo.bascomp.org/2007/08/copy-tape-to-tape/ http://sysinfo.bascomp.org/2007/08/copy-tape-to-tape/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:25:36 +0000 Eriek Regandono http://sysinfo.bascomp.org/2007/08/21/copy-tape-to-tape/ The " tcopy " tility used to copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. Simply, the " tcopy " used for copies one tape to another tape.

Rewind the tape first
# mt -f /dev/rmt/0 rewind
# mt -f /dev/rmt/1 rewind

And then " tcopy "
# tcopy /dev/rmt/0 /dev/rmt/1

Note
rmt = raw magnetic tape device

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