In a message dated 5/2/02 9:33:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
erd_6502_at_yahoo.com writes:
> You misunderstand the direction I'm going. I have magtape with data
> already on it. I want to extract that data into a file or set of
> files on the disk that I can then burn to CD-R. I can use dd to move
> raw records, but I would like to also know what the block size was
> for a particular file so I could reconsitute the tape later if
> necessary. I'm not so worried about the VMS BACKUP tapes I need to
> spin off - I want one saveset per file. If I want to dup any install
> tapes (non-VAX), the blocking becomes more critical.
>
> Essentially, a physical backup that is primarily for data recovery,
> but secondarily for later restoration.
>
> I do not intend to use magtape as a primary backup media for Linux
> or Solaris. Writing tape is not a concern here, only reading. I
> do know how to operate dump/restore, tar, etc. They are of _no_ use
>
Wouldn't dd make an image preserving the original block sizes?
-Linc.
In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
Calculating in binary code is as easy as 01,10,11.
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