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Tape drives and dd



Dear List,

looking for solutions to encrypt my tapes, I discovered that many users are piping
their streams through dd...

IE: rather than
 cat myfile > /dev/st0
 cat myfile | dd of=/dev/st0

and some also add a block size of 10240 bytes....

Why is this?

Thanks

Andrew



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