Re: System Migration/No Tape Drive Compatibility

[Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 19:05, Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Disk storage is not an issue on the destination system, I was actually going
> to do what LUKAS wrote to start out then realized I would be out of disk
> before I started. ÂCan you create 1 save file then append information to it,
> I see a oversavf command, so far no luck wiht that. ÂI recall an old taatool
> where you could save many libraries but I don't have that either.

Well, what kind of tape drives do you have? If you don't have an
exotic combination, maybe your BP can help you.

I keep a SLR 30/60 around just for that reason - i DUPTAP tapes from
the SLR30/60 systems to virtual tape, send them to an LTO4 system and
DUPTAP them back to real tape. This has the advantage that you can
convert MLR8/16 tapes from very old systems which couldn't save to
virtual tape even if they wanted to to new LTO4 media, from which you
can restore.