Sounds like I'd better use an error free pack for the output, then. Fortunately error free RL02s aren't that unusual, even today. Johnny Billquist (bqt at softjar.se) wrote: Eh... BAD is a BAD idea in this case. I disagree - how else will you know if it's error free? But check the /IMAGE switch to BRU... Umm... BRU>/IMAGE:SAVE source target :RESTORE /IMAGE specifies that you want to do a multivolume disk-to-disk backup or restore operation. ..... Doesn't sound like what I want. [It's odd - VMS BACKUP has a /IMAGE option, but it does something entirely different.] I think I'll go crank up the 730 to copy the RL02... Thanks, Bob