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Old 04-26-2005
Copy tape ?????????????
how i can copy entire content of a tape to HD ? the tape content a tar file i want to copy it onto hard disk and after do the untar ... The block size of the tar file is 1024 ..... wich command i must type ??? thank in advance ........

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Old 04-26-2005
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Last edited by jolok; 04-26-2005 at 05:20 PM..
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Old 04-27-2005
If you want to copy data, you could try the dd command. You can specify the input file, output file and the block size as well. Here's an example

Code:
dd if=/dev/rmt/0mn of=/tmp/outputfile.tar bs=1024

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