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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: ncr.sys.unix,comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: Copying from one tape to another tape
Keywords: cpio, tar, dd
Message-ID: <1887@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 14:05:46 GMT
References: <812@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure)
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Organization: E&M-Columbia, NCR Corp, W Columbia, SC
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In article <812@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM> steve@pmday_2.Dayton.NCR.COM (Steve Bridges) writes:
|A possible scenario follows:  I have a 150mb tape with some files somebody
|with another tower wants.  They only have a 45mb tape drive, but I have
|both a 150mb and a 45mb tape drive.  I want to copy what is on
|the 150mb tape to a 45mb tape without putting a copy in disk.
|
|Thanks in advance for any responses.

Steve, what about dd if=/dev/150Mtape of=/dev/45Mtape bs=100k    ???

Steve McClure
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