[Sunhelp] Copy of tape-to-tape

[Kevin Stevens]

I believe you have to use "a", not "c", if you want to append to rather than 
overwrite the first file...

KeS


>From: Jason Meggs <jmeggs at lmi.net>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: [Sunhelp] Copy of tape-to-tape
>Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 14:27:13 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi,
>
>I've been having unexpected trouble
>copying two tapes from one tape
>drive to another using the tar
>command, and wonder if there's
>another command or if I'm missing
>something.  The only thing I can
>fathom is that the 'x' argument
>does not allow output to stdout,
>based on the man page, but in that
>case, how does one copy one tape
>to another?
>
>This is the command I most recently
>attempted:
>
>  tar xvf /dev/rmt/1cb - | tar cvf - /dev/rmt/3cb
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jason
>
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