Hi all, It is probably asked before, but I can't seem to find it in the archives. I have a MicroPDP up & running 2.11BSD but no spare TK50 tapes to make a backup of it, before I f*ck it all up :) I do have a lot of TK50s which weren't mine and they have data on it of which I do not know the status. They came with a MV3100 with VMS on it, which I am going to use eventually as well. So I'm not really willing to just scrap the data on those tapes. I'd like to make a backup-image of those across the LAN before I write anything else on it. How do you guys usually do it? # tcopy /dev/rmt0 to see what's on it # dd if=/dev/rmt0 bs=??? | rsh other_current_bsdmachine_with_lots_of_diskspace -l <user> dd of=vms_tape_file?.img bs=??? for every file on there? I didn't even know `dd' wouldn't cross EOF boundaries tbh (wasted my youth on C64s and Amigas :)). -- ~ UNIX is basically a simple operating system, ? ? ? ? ? ?but you have to be a genius to understand its simplicity. ~ dmr