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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: SCSI tape drives
From:       Craig Kelley <ink () inconnu ! isu ! edu>
Date:       1998-07-30 13:55:09
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, L.U.S.T List wrote:

> I have multible tape drives of the same manufacture tyed to a Linux
> machine.  I would like to duplicate any tape that is made by any
> program with this setup.  Is there a byte by byte transfer program for
> Linux to do this??  

If the tapes are the same type and length (ie, same DDS level and length
in meters), I would first try something like this:

$ mt -f /dev/tape1 rewind
$ mt -f /dev/tape2 rewind
$ dd if=/dev/tape1 of=/dev/tape2 bs=10240

If that doesn't work (I don't know how exact tape drives are) then my next
hunch would be to try this:

$ mt -f /dev/tape1 rewind
$ mt -f /dev/tape2 rewind
$ cat /dev/tape1 > /dev/tape2

which might run slower, but should work on any data.



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