Re: [tlug] Copying a DAT drive

[Larry Stanbery <lstanber@example.com>]

On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 01:24  PM, 
patrick.niessen@example.com wrote:
> Ideal would be a kind of image copy, ie. I don't want the Unix server 
> admin
> to notice any  difference if he ever needs to restore from the tape.

Take a look at 'dd' -- that's likely to be the answer you want.  Using 
dd you can do bulk binary copy from a file (device) to some other 
location.  Sometimes used to block copy floppy boot images from an .img 
file to the floppy itself, as shown in the example from RedHat:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k # copy from file boot.img to file 
/dev/fd0

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