130 lines
3.9 KiB
Groff
130 lines
3.9 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1985, 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" @(#)tcopy.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/17/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 20, 2006
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.Dt TCOPY 1
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm tcopy
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.Nd copy and/or verify mag tapes
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl cvx
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.Op Fl s Ar maxblk
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.Oo Ar src Op Ar dest
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.Oc
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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utility is designed to copy magnetic tapes.
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The only assumption made
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about the tape layout is that there are two sequential EOF marks
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at the end.
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By default, the
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.Nm
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utility will print
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information about the sizes of records and files found
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on the
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.Pa /dev/sa0
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tape, or on the tape specified by the
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.Ar src
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argument.
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If a destination tape is also specified by the
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.Ar dest
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argument, a copy of the source tape will be made.
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The blocking on the
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destination tape will be identical to that used on the source tape.
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Copying
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a tape will yield the same program output as if just printing the sizes.
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.Pp
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The following options are available:
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.Bl -tag -width ".Fl s Ar maxblk"
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.It Fl c
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Copy
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.Ar src
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to
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.Ar dest
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and then verify that the two tapes are identical.
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.It Fl s Ar maxblk
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Specify a maximum block size,
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.Ar maxblk .
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.It Fl v
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Given the two tapes
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.Ar src
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and
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.Ar dest ,
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verify that they are identical.
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.It Fl x
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Output all informational messages to the standard error
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instead of the standard output.
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This option is useful when
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.Ar dest
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is given as
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.Pa /dev/stdout .
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mt 1 ,
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.Xr mtio 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.3 .
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.Sh BUGS
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.Bl -item
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.It
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Writing an image of a tape to a file does not preserve much more than
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the raw data.
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Block size(s) and tape EOF marks are lost which would
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otherwise be preserved in a tape-to-tape copy.
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.It
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End of data (EOD) is determined by two sequential EOF marks
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with no data between them.
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There used to be old systems which typically wrote three EOF's between tape
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files.
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The
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.Nm
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utility will erroneously stop copying early in this case.
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.It
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When using the copy/verify option
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.Fl c ,
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.Nm
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does not rewind the tapes prior to start.
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A rewind is performed
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after writing, prior to the verification stage.
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If one does not start
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at the beginning-of-tape (BOT) then the comparison
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may not be of the intended data.
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.El
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