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From: vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H)
Subject: Re: UNIX tape duplicator request
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.005613.18474@news.iastate.edu>
Summary: Binary tape-tape copy
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 00:56:13 GMT
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In article <26364@adm.brl.mil> GED%wufpak.prime.com@relay.cs.net (Gantt Edmiston) writes:
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>Hello UNIX literate from one who is not!
>
>I have a need and hopefully someone out there has a solution.
>
>The problem:  The need to duplicate UNIX software on 60 MB data
>cartridges.  I have a Prime EXL320 CPU which runs System 5 Version 3.1.2
>UNIX.  I can (I have the Hardware) configure two 60 MB tape drives on
>the same SCSI chain, if necessary.  (This would allow me to theoretically
>do a tape-to-tape copy.)  If it is just as easy to do a
>tape-to-disk-to-tape then ok also.  I want to DUPLICATE exactly the data
>from the source tape to a blank tape so that they are functionally
>identical.
>
Take a look at the dd command.  The man page will tell you how to 
set it up.  

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