>  Rene van Maanen, SSE HP Netherlands
 
>  A customer of mine is looking for a utility to make a copy of his backup
>  tape, without doing a store again. This is for data safety reasons.
 
>  Is anyone familiar with a tool like this?
 
On MPE V on the Series 70 there are 2 programs in the TELESUP Account which
will allow you do this. They are
 
 TAPECOPY.PUB which requires you to have 2 tape drives for the copy
 
and
 
TDTCOPY.PUB which requires 1 tape drive to do the copy as it uses a
compressed intermediate file.
 
Both programs are documented in the DOC Group in the Telesup Account. I have
used both programs a few times and have had no problems.
 
With regard to the XL machine I do not know of any such utility.
 
Regards,
 
Declan Hogan.
 
Airmotive Ireland.