Hi, Below is the mail attached which has similar answers to many others. Thanks to all of them. AS the subject suggests i needded to duplicate tapes which would be in tape drives connected to different hosts. The answer was pretty much simple: From source host run: dd if=/dev/rmt/6st bs=1024|rsh host_target dd of=/dev/rmt/0 obs=1024. Regards Himanshu "Rich Kulawiec" wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:29:05PM +0530, himanshukhona wrote: > I have 2 machines with 2 different tape drives. > > IBM 3590 on v880 & sun 8mm tape drive on SB1000. > > I want to dump data on IBM3590 on 8mm tape drive on SB1000. > > How can i run dd between 2 different devices on different machines. I'll show this example with rsh, but ssh would work much the same way; >From the sb1000: rsh v800hostname -n "dd if=/dev/rmt/0 bs=20k" | dd of=/dev/rmt/1 bs=10k or from the v880: dd if=/dev/rmt/0 bs=20k | rsh sb1000hostname "dd of=/dev/rmt/1 bs=10k" You'll need to adjust the device names and the blocking factor (the bs= part) to suit whatever-it-is you're actually trying to copy. ---Rsk Get Your Private, Free E-mail from Indiatimes at http://email.indiatimes.com Buy The Best In BOOKS at http://www.bestsellers.indiatimes.com Bid for Air Tickets @ Re.1 on Air Sahara Flights. Just log on to http://airsahara.indiatimes.com and Bid Now ! _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Apr 3 23:56:23 2003
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