2 May
2002
2 May
'02
11:25 a.m.
At 02:01 AM 5/2/2002 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
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.
Whats wrong with cat ?
use the /dev/nst0 device, its the one that dont rewind
( use mt commands for that kind of stuff )
cat /dev/nst0 > file1.tap
cat /dev/nst0 > file2.tap
and so on
I see most are using dd when cat is all they need
dd was originally, and still is an ebcdic <> ascii
conversion tool that will do reblocking
and is still the tool to use if you want to
count xx blocks of size xx, use offsets etc
but for pulling off of tape or writing a floppy
image to a floppy all you need is cat
cat /dev/scd0 > /files/cdromimage.iso
presto an iso that you can mount
on the loop device or burn to another cd
get the picture ?