Tape Duplication in any Format
Tapes of any size and format may be duplicated using MediaMerge/PC (MM/PC). Irrespective of the type of tape, the length, the logical format, MM/PC 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.
The tape duplication may either be done by purchasing the product, or we offer service centers in both Europe and USA. Use of the service centers means that no investment in drives or training will be required.
For labeled 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 that is the middle of a multi-volume set without changing it's labels.
While duplicating a tape, a log is kept of all block sizes and filemarks that is then stored in the MM/PC log. A log is also kept of how tapes have been stacked so that individual datasets or volumes can be extracted later.
When both input and output media allow it, tape 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 SCSI tape drives supported, 3480, 3590, 4mm DAT, 8mm Exabyte, DLT, DC600, LTO 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
- Our Conversion Service Center is also available to handle your tape duplication needs