From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 16:27:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A148316A402 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:27:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F97513C4B9 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:27:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id l12GRcnd061750; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:27:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:27:38 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Leigh Thomas Message-ID: <20070202162738.GB44511@dan.emsphone.com> References: <6988708E9DF6D411892E0090278623A0010C7956@METNT1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6988708E9DF6D411892E0090278623A0010C7956@METNT1> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Tapecopy(1) Function Query X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:27:39 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 02), Leigh Thomas said: > Will the above tapecopy facility copy a tape from one format to > another? i.e. DAT to AIT for instance and does the format of the tape > matter? i.e. will it copy a windows format tape? You mean the tcopy command? Yes, it can read from one tape drive type and write to another, assuming the destination tape is not smaller than the source :) It really doesn't care; they're all the same from its point of view. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com