As Terry mentions, this is probably the best method anyway since in many
cases, audit requirements specify that you "test" a certain percentage of
archived media every so often anyway to prove that it is still valid.  A small
used system with a several 9GB drives can be acquired relatively inexpensively
since an 8 user license would be more than sufficient.

Regards,
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
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-----Original Message-----
From:   SIMPKINS, Terry [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Tuesday, April 07, 1998 8:08 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] Copying STORE format tapes

Patrick asks:
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copied from 2400 ft 9-track reels to DLT cartridges!
Reason: some of these backups take over 40 reels,
 Is it even *possible* to copy a STORE tape to a different length media?
 Among other problems, won't this screw up the directory at the front
 of the target tape(s)?
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Here we come back to my old "stand-by" solution:
 - little 3000's are cheap.   (922, 917, etc)
 - dup'ing tapes has a couple of problems
 - student labor can be pretty cheap.

why not buy/rent/borrow a little 3K, and just restore and store
the desired groups of files?

Then you also have residual value in the form of a test/crash and burn
machine.  Year 2000 testing is looming large.

Terry Simpkins