On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 at 18:21, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > On 1/30/25 4:43 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > > > I need to 'copy' a tape, bt using a single drive. > > > > There's something 'smart' i can do, or the only option is to build two jobs, > > one that copy the media in a different type (eg, files) and then migrate it > > on tape? > > > > > > Thanks. > > Hello Marco, > > > If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another > tape but only have one tape drive? > > If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to read the > entire tape to a file on disk, then use `dd` > again to read the file and write to the new tape.
Hello Everybody, There could be also used bcopy tool provided by Bacula in the way proposed by Bill (tape to disk and then disk to tape): https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION001800000000000000000 Best regards, Marcin Haba (gani) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
