MV-II Diags & Customer Diags

Hi Doc, You ROCK! I've been looking for the MVII diags for a long time now! 'dd' will only make a copy of the first file, and there are many files on the tapes, so you will have to do multiple 'dd's with the non-rewind device, figure out the block size of each file, and document that with the image. In the past I have used 'dd bs=32768', then divided the number of partial blocks in by the file size to get block size and the file in one step. IE '0+278 records in', and a file size of 142336 means a block size of 512. I would suggest choosing some naming convention for the files like 'MVII-DIAG-MAINT.001', 'MVII-DIAG-MAINT.002', etc and include a shell script to create a tape from the files: #!/bin/sh dd if=MVII-DIAG-MAINT.001 of=$TAPE bs=512 dd if=MVII-DIAG-MAINT.002 of=$TAPE bs=10240 mt -f $TAPE offline echo "Done" At least that was my plan when I contemplated backing up tapes. These files can easily be burned onto a CD-R for offline storage as well. Regards, Clint On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Doc Shipley wrote: