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MTD - CHARON Magnetic Tape Dump & Restore utility, Version 2.3 5 (Build 1830219401)
Copyright (C) 2009-2016 2018 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 - output write tape image in SMA format
-g - gather statistics and print upon completion
-a - do not print logo

Example:

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

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