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TCOPY 1 "Mar 10, 2000"
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
SEE ALSO

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

NOTES

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