Re: DUPTAPOPT?

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'ld be surprised if Al didn't have a tool somewhere for that TAP > OPT
functionality....

Don inDC



On Mon, 17 May 2004 Jromeh@xxxxxxx wrote:

>
> 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
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