I wish to make a duplicate of the contents of a DAT tape, for backup purposes, on a device running HP-UX, if that's important. My thought is to
1) view the contents of the source tape,
2) copy the contents of the source tape to a directory on the hard drive,
3) insert a destination tape,
4) format the destination tape as needed,
5) copy the contents from the directory on the hard drive to the destination tape,
6) and view the contents of the destination tape, to verify all files copied.
Somewhere along the line I am pretty sure I need to use the dd command, but my Unix knowledge is too little and too many years in cold storage. The DAT drive is /dev/rdt/tape2.
Please help. Thanks!
Stephen :-?