1 May
2002
1 May
'02
9:01 p.m.
So I finally got this TSZ07 that I've been wanting for a while so I can
archive a mountain of magtape I have (including System III sources for
the 11/780, on up to distro tapes of the 1990s). I can use dd to slurp
stuff off of tape, but it's tedious. What tools are people using for
tape archiving under Linux or Solaris? AIX seems to come with "tcopy"
that essentially pulls everything off the tape until logical or physical
EOT. I'm looking for something similar - point it at the drive and
siphon it on down.
At present, because of cable reach, I am talking to the tape drive
through an Adaptec AHA1460 PCMCIA SCSI interface on a Dell Latitude LM
running RedHat 5.2. I can address the drive fine and dump files with
dd and cat. I'm looking for a bulk data slurper, source or RH RPM. I'm
willing to throw this beast on the SPARCstation 5, but I'd rather not
put it in that corner just yet. At the moment, the drive is several
dozen times larger than the computer controlling it.
-ethan
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