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MTD - CHARON Magnetic Tape Dump & Restore utility, Version 2.5 (Build 20200)
Copyright (C) 2009-2019 STROMASYS SA. All rights reserved.

Usage: mtd [options] <tape-drive-name> <file-name> - dump tape content to file
       mtd <file-name> <tape-drive-name>           - restore dump to tape
       mtd <file-name> <file-name>                 - convert formats
       mtd <file-name>                             - examine tape dump and check integrity

        <tape-drive-name> - tape drive
              <file-name> - name of tape container file (.mtd or .vtape)

Options: -l <file-name> - log file name (.log)
         -n             - do not rewind tape
         -r <number>    - number of attempts to retry failing tape reads
         -i             - ignore failing tape reads (implies -r 0)
         -p             - disable progress reporting
         -v             - enable verbose trace of data transfer (implies -p)
         -s             - write tape image in SMA format
         -g             - gather statistics and print upon completion
         -a             - do not print logo


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Example:

$ mtd -l tape1.txt -r 10 /dev/st5 /charon/tapes/tape1.vtape

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Include Page
KBCOMMON:DOC-GoToToc
KBCOMMON:DOC-GoToToc

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Tape container formats transfer

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