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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers tar write err Post 21514 by Kevin Pryke on Friday 17th of May 2002 09:35:43 AM
Old 05-17-2002
Yes, I suppose so or save a small file with a number (that is incremented on each backup) in it & extract that back to check. That way I can be sure that I'm not just copying back a file with the same name from an old backup.

Still, this isn't actually effecting me, all our backups are too big for this to apply. It just seemed odd.

Thanks Perderabo.
 

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tcopy

tcopy(1)							   User Commands							  tcopy(1)

NAME

       tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

SYNOPSIS

       tcopy source [destination]

DESCRIPTION

       The  tcopy  utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the
       contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.

       When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a  des-
       tination  is  specified,  tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy pro-
       duces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.

       The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example,

	 example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWesu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)

NOTES

       tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of  ioctl(2) requests.

SunOS 5.11							    10 Mar 2000 							  tcopy(1)
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