[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes
Dennis Boone
drb at ihatespam.msu.edu
Sat Feb 23 11:56:15 EST 2013
> If you can find a TK50-Z scsi tape drive, you may be able to use
> Linux / unix and dd to copy to files. There may also be later scsi
> versions of TK50 drives as well.
PLEASE don't use dd to image tapes. If you go the route of finding
a working drive and unix to image them, use something like tapeutils
(http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/tapeutils/) which will
produce images that don't just throw away the block structure of the
tape.
De
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