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- From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
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- Subject: Re: DUPLICATING TA90s ???
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.121509.19737@slcs.slb.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 12:15:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.123646.20532@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, ecldco@ultb.isc.rit.edu
- (E.C. Loyd) writes:
- >[lots of stuff relating to copying TA90s deleted]
- >>A warning! It is important to note that when you copy tapes,
- >>error blocks may appear/disappear. If you are copying VMS BACKUP
- >>savesets, it is extremely important that you leave on the CRC
- >>checking and redundancy grouping capabilities of VMS BACKUP.
- >>Otherwise, there is a distinct chance that your saveset may get
- >>corrupted.
- >
- >But what we here at RIT would like to do it copy, bit-for-bit, one tape to
- >another tape. There would be no loss of data in this fashion.
-
- There is a backup qualifier called /INTERCHANGE that changes the
- characteristiics of error block recovery on tape [I think a 'small' blocksize
- such as 8192 might have to be specified as well - (?)]. Both /INTERCHANGE and
- /BLOCK=8192 are specified on VMSINSTAL savesets for example, which allows you
- to use the COPY command between disk/tape, disk/disk and tape/tape.
-
- I think the answer is that if you have tapes that you want copied that don't
- meet the above criteria, you are out of luck in terms of reliable data
- transfer. You might be able to play games with them to get partial recovery,
- but I wouldn't want to depend on the results.
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