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

Marco Gaiarin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Organization Il gaio usa sempre TIN per le liste, fallo anche tu!!!
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Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
  In chel di` si favelave...

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

Exactly.


> 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.

As stated by Marcin, and to stay in the «there's everyday a new thing to
learn in bacula», i've discovered bcopy... ;-)


I'll give it a try and provide feedback. thanks to all!

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