Tape
duplication in any format
Tapes of any size and format may be duplicated
using MMPC. Irrespective of the type of tape, length and
logical format.
MMPC has tools to duplicate tapes,
either on a tape to tape basis, or via a temporary file on the
system's hard disk. The duplicated tape will have identical
block sizes and filemarks. However, it is possible to duplicate
tapes onto a different media (e.g. DAT to Exabyte) and
to select the density and compression of the output.
For labelled tapes (in both ASCII and
EBCDIC) the labels are monitored, and changed as required, to
allow for multi-volume copying, stacking, of single tape to
many, many tapes to single tape, or multiple tape to multiple
tapes. There is also an option to duplicate a tape which is
the middle of a multi-volume set, without changing it's labels.
Whilst duplicating a log is kept of all
block sizes and filemarks, that is then stored in the MMPC
log.
When both input and output media allow
it, duplication is possible with block sizes greater than 64K,
and also dual partition tapes can be duplicated.
Operation is extremely simple, and all
that needs to be selected is the input and output drive, and
output density, which will be given as a choice dependent on
the type of output tape being used.
Brief features are
- All tape SCSI tape drives supported,
3480, 3590, DAT, Exabyte, DLT, DC600 etc
- All logical tape formats
- Any length of tape to tape duplication
- Option to duplicate to same tape drive,
via hard disk
- Multi-volume / stacking handled
- Blocks greater than 64K
- Dual partition tapes
- Log of filemarks and block sizes kept
- Very easy to use
