Re: DUPTAP from physical media to virtual tape. -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: DUPTAP from physical media to virtual tape.
From: CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:25:11 -0800
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On 22-Feb-2012 13:01 , Jack Kingsley wrote:

Is this doable, I need to get some LTO1 objects from tape on 5.4 to
a 7.1 machine. I am thinking I could DUPTAP it to the virtual in
the IFS, save the IFS portion and FTP it over and restore it back
out, then use RSTLIB against the virtual tape.

The documentation will almost always be discussing the reverse; i.e. how to get the virtual media onto physical media. However the DUPTAP operation should be effectively identical to "Saving data to virtual tape media", for which the final step to perform the actual "save" request(s) would be replaced with the step to perform the actual "duplicate" request; e.g. as described in the documentation here:

_i Virtual tape media i_
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v6r1m0/topic/rzaiu/rzaiuvirtualtape.htm

Regards, Chuck

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