tcopy(1)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Attributes | See Also | Notes

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 TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWesu

See Also

mt(1), ioctl(2), attributes(5)

Notes

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

SunOS 5.11  Last Revised 10 Mar 2000

Name | Synopsis | Description | Attributes | See Also | Notes