TCOPY(1)

NAME
tcopy - copy and/or verify mag tapes

SYNOPSIS
tcopy [-cvx] [-s maxblk] [src [dest]]

DESCRIPTION
tcopy is designed to copy magnetic tapes. The only assumption made about the tape is that there are two tape marks at the end. tcopy with only a source tape (/dev/rst0 by default) specified will print information about the sizes of records and tape files. If a destination is specified a copy will be made of the source tape. The blocking on the destination tape will be identical to that used on the source tape. Copying a tape will yield the same output as if just printing the sizes.

The options are as follows:

-c  Copy src to dest and then verify that the two tapes are identical.

-s maxblk
    Specify a maximum block size, maxblk.

-v  Given the two tapes, src and dest, verify that they are identical.

-x  Output all informational messages to the standard error. This option is useful when dest is /dev/stdout.

SEE ALSO
mtio(4)

HISTORY
The tcopy command appeared in 4.3BSD.