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- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: Bulk tape production
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.162155.1914@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Keywords: tapes, tapes tapes
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <1992Nov6.203300.13557@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:21:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.203300.13557@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> gregk@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Greg Koolbeck - RMS) writes:
- >
- > We have been handed a problem that must have been solved before. We are being
- >asked to provide a plan for making a large number (anywhere from 50 to 500)
- >copies of a set of QIC tapes, each containing several TAR archives. We can, of
- >course, get two QIC drives on a single host and play dd games to duplicate each
- >tape, but I'm sure there are less labor-intensive ways. Does anyone have a
- >suggestion?
-
- Hire a duplicating service. (This may not be possible for you, being a
- NASA site, but it'd be the best way.)
-
- If you *have* to do this manually, get a system with two drives and a
- large enough hard drive to store an image of the master, then dd *that*
- to the tape drives. Running two copies off at once will go faster, since
- you should be able to catch most of the data in the disc cache.
-
- Gary
-
-
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- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
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