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From: rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
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Subject: Re: Duplicating tapes accross the network
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Date: 6 Jun 90 20:13:13 GMT
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In article <10196@hydra.gatech.EDU> rhoward@msd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
>I got this really great way to make duplicates of tapes between
>machines...
[stuff about errors is deleted]

>The command to duplicate the tape was:
>
>        dd if=/dev/rst0 bs=126b | rsh <host> dd of=/dev/rst0 bs=126b

The problem was that I had a tape with multiple files on it and
things were getting all messed up.  I wrote a shell script around
the above command and solved the problem.

Sorry about jumping the gun on the problem

Thanks
Robert
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