6 Mar
2013
6 Mar
'13
9:32 a.m.
On 3/6/13, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Steve Merrony
<steve at stephenmerrony.co.uk> wrote:
> What is the current best practice for creating an
image of a SCSI tape in
> such a way that it can later be used to reliably make a replica of that
> tape?
Are there any reason why you don't use dd or tar?
AFAIK, dd won't preserve the block structure or marks from tapes, and
thus is unsuitable for making faithful copies.