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tcopy

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 10 Mar 2000
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NAME

tcopy - copy a magnetic tape  

SYNOPSIS

tcopy source [destination]  

DESCRIPTION

The tcopy utility copies the magnetic tape mounted on the tape drive specified by the source argument. The only assumption made about the contents of a tape is that there are two tape marks at the end.

When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape, and displays information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a destination is specified, tcopy makes a copies the source tape onto the destination tape, with blocking preserved. As it copies, tcopy produces the same output as it does when only scanning a tape.

The tcopy utility requires the use of Berkeley-compatible device names. For example, 

example% tcopy /dev/rmt/1b /dev/rmt/2b

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWesu

 

SEE ALSO

mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)  

NOTES

tcopy will only run on systems supporting an associated set of ioctl(2) requests.

 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
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