[Info-vax] Copying VMS SaveSet Under Windows

Michael Kraemer M.Kraemer at gsi.de
Mon Nov 22 03:25:01 EST 2010


glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:

> Even more, if you use dd with the bs option, for a tape to tape
> copy, it will preserve the block size.  That is different than
> the ibs and obs options, which reblock the data to the specified
> obs block size.
> 
> With bs=(large value), dd reads one block, writes one block,
> reads the next, writes that, etc.

better yet, use "tcopy", supported on
AIX, and possibly Solaris and others too.




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