Re: Copy a tape with a single drive...

Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
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On 1/30/25 4:43 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> 
> I need to 'copy' a tape, bt using a single drive.
> 
> There's something 'smart' i can do, or the only option is to build two jobs,
> one that copy the media in a different type (eg, files) and then migrate it
> on tape?
> 
> 
> Thanks.

Hello Marco,


If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another tape but only have one tape drive?

If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to read the entire tape to a file on disk, then use `dd` 
again to read the file and write to the new tape.


Best regards,
Bill

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