DUPTAPOPT?

hello, have been away for a bit, but glad to say I'm back and _employed_ 
and resubbed and such...

anyway, looking for a good way to duplicate tapes to optical, whether a 
product or utility or just advice - so, here's a bit about the 
requirement...

need to duplicate a bunch of old QIC (it's going away...) tapes 
containing month and year end saves from the past onto optical

while DUPTAP can be used to get to our new tape format, this is old data 
which is supposed to stay around for a long time and the desire is to 
instead put them on lower cost, more durable media

if possible, we'd like it to be as close to a DUPTAP as possible, meaning 
that it would preserve the save information including dates

in other discussion, David has suggested dumping the tape, then churning 
through restoring and saving each object (which would add a new save 
date) and adding a file containing the original save information to the 
optical - he was even gracious enough to forward RPG replacements for the 
PL/I DUPTAPIN and DUPTAPOUT utility programs in QUSRTOOL - these were 
used to simulate DUPTAP on a box with only one tape drive and so could 
make creating something like this easier

just wondering if there's an easier way, and especially something which 
preserves the dates, and is preferably a fairly simple process like 
DUPTAP 

thanks in advance, 

--Jerome Hughes