tcopy(1) [osf1 man page]

tcopy(1)						      General Commands Manual							  tcopy(1)

NAME

       tcopy - Copies magnetic tapes

SYNOPSIS

       tcopy [-cv] [-s max-blocksize] [source] [destination]

OPTIONS

       Verifies  whether  the  source  and  the destination tapes are identical after copying the source tape into the destination tape.  Verifies
       whether the source and the destination tapes are identical.  Sets the maximum allowed tape block size.  The default is 128 Kbytes.

DESCRIPTION

       If a source and a destination tape are specified then the tcopy command copies the source tape into the destination tape.

       If only a source tape is specified then tcopy prints information about the contents of the tape.  For each file in the tape,  tcopy  prints
       the number of records of each block size.  Tape /dev/tape/tape0_d0 is the default.

       The  tcopy  command  assumes that there are two tape marks at the end of the source tape when copying or reading, and two tape marks at the
       end of both tapes when verifying.

EXAMPLES

       To copy /dev/tape/tape0_d0 into	/dev/tape/tape1_d0,  enter:  tcopy  /dev/tape/tape0_d0	/dev/tape/tape1_d0  To	obtain	information  about
       /dev/tape/tape1_d0, enter: tcopy /dev/tape/tape1_d0

SEE ALSO
:
       Commands:  mt(1)

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MT(1)							      General Commands Manual							     MT(1)

NAME

       mt - magnetic tape manipulating program

SYNOPSIS

       mt [ -f tapename ] command [ count ]

DESCRIPTION

       Mt  is  used  to  give commands to a magnetic tape drive.  If a tape name is not specified, the environment variable TAPE is used;  if TAPE
       does not exist, mt uses the device /dev/rmt12.  Note that tapename must reference a raw (not block) tape device.  By  default  mt  performs
       the requested operation once.  Operations may be performed multiple times by specifying count.

       The available commands are listed below.  Only as many characters as are required to uniquely identify a command need be specified.

       eof, weof
	      Write count end-of-file marks at the current position on the tape.

       fsf    Forward space count files.

       fsr    Forward space count records.

       bsf    Back space count files.

       bsr    Back space count records.

       rewind Rewind the tape (Count is ignored).

       offline, rewoffl
	      Rewind the tape and place the tape unit off-line (Count is ignored).

       status Print status information about the tape unit.

       cacheon
	      Enable the readahead/writebehind cache on the tape unit.

       cacheoff
	      Turn off the readahead/writebehind cache on the tape unit.

       Mt returns a 0 exit status when the operation(s) were successful, 1 if the command was unrecognized, and 2 if an operation failed.

       The cacheon and cacheoff commands currently only apply to the TMSCP driver and then only for certain drives such as the TU81+.  No error is
       produced by the TMSCP driver if the cache commands are used.  Other drivers will return an error code  since  they  do  not  recognize  the
       MTCACHE and MTNOCACHE functions codes.  See mtio(4).

FILES

       /dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface

SEE ALSO

       mtio(4), tmscp(4), dd(1), ioctl(2), environ(7)

4th Berkeley Distribution					 December 22, 1995							     MT(1)