SUMMARY:How to transfer data from 8mm to 4mm DAT

From: Umesh Shrikrishna Potbhare (upotbhar@cvimail.cv.com)
Date: Thu Feb 06 1997 - 06:20:42 CST


Hi all

Thanks to everybody.

The Solution is
Connect the two tape drive on same SCSI controller and use the tcopy command.

tcopy <Source drive > < Destination drive >

Thanks and Regards,
Umesh

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> Hi all,
>
> I have 8mm DAT tape cartridge and I would like to transfer it on 4mm DAT tape. The data on 8mm is in dd format compressed using gzip.
> And I would like to transfer all the containt of 8mm to 4mm.
> Donot know how many blocks are there in 8mm tape.
>
> Please guide.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Umesh
> ComputerVision ( Netadmin)



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