Creating a DD Image?

[George Hincapie]

I have a DAT72 tape I need to create a DD image of. I have a suitable HP DAT72 drive, I've installed it via a SCSI card and ran the HP diagnostics and all is good.

I am using W7 64 Bit. How do I create the DD image?

TIA.

 

[DRZ]

dd is a Linux utility, so you're probably going to have to do some searching to find a Windows utility that does the same thing.

A quick search throws this up, never used it though so you'll need to do some reading of your own: http://uranus.chrysocome.net/linux/rawwrite/

Man page for the "proper" dd: http://linux.die.net/man/1/dd

 

[George Hincapie]

DRZ, thanks for responding. DD is just 'Disk Dump', there must be an equivalent in Windows. I can use Linux if I have to, but the issue with DD and tapes is determining the block size - I have no clue how to do that.

I was hoping someone would know of a W7 utility that would just make a copy of the DAT tape for me - I can't believe Sys Admins don't have to do that from time to time.