[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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