tcopy is a legacy Unix command used to copy magnetic tape-based media.

Description

The tcopy utility is copies magnetic tapes. The only assumption made about the tape is that there are two tape marks at the end. The tcopy utility with only a source tape ( /dev/sa0 by default) specified prints information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a destination is specified a copy will be made of the source tape. The blocking on the destination tape will be identical to that used on the source tape. Copying a tape will yield the same output as if printing the sizes.

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Syntax

tcopy [-cvx] [-s maxblk] [src [dest] ]

Options

Examples

tcopy $RMT /dev/rmt83.1

Copies the drive on $RMT to the device /dev/rmt83.1.

Before attempting to copy the contents of a tape drive, ensure no errors are present on either disks and you rewind the tapes to the beginning.

mt — Control magnetic tapes.