Tape Duplication in any Format
Tapes of any size and format may be duplicated using MediaMerge/PC (MM/PC). Irrespective of the tape type, length, or logical format, MM/PC can perform the duplication, either on a tape to tape basis, or via a temporary file on the system's hard disk. The duplicated tapes 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 be done either by purchasing the product, or by taking advantage of data services offered by our 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 of all block sizes and filemarks is 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. Dual partition tapes can be also duplicated.
Operation is extremely simple. It is necessary only to select the input and output drive and output density. The choices are 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