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- From: r.evans@cc.ic.ac.uk (Mr R.H. Evans)
- Subject: Re: copying tapes across a network
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.193541.28115@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:35:41 BST
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- In article <BsvG29.B4J@cs.dal.ca>, gordon@ug.cs.dal.ca (Scott King) writes:
- -- Is there any way that tapes can be copied over the network (ie copy a tape
- -- in a remote machine`s tape drive to a tape in my own tape drive). Both
- -- of the machines we want to do this with are sparc2's and have Exabyte Drives.
- -- Any suggestions?
- --
- -- - Scott
- -- --
- -- Scott King Geological Survey of Canada - Atlantic Geoscience Centre
- -- king@basmod.bio.ns.ca Basin Analysis Subdivision
- -- gordon@ug.cs.dal.ca Bedford Institute of Oceanography
- -- Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
-
- How about something along the lines of:
-
- rsh <remote-machine> 'dd if=/dev/rst0' | dd of=/dev/rst0
-
- Replace the /dev/rst0 entries with those corresponding to the devices you are
- using.
-
- This will only work for the first file on the tape. It is possible to copy
- subsequent files if the non-rewinding tape device is used and the commands
- are repeated, but there is probably a more elegant way.
-
- Robert.
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