Re: What would you suggest for archiving ancient libraries?

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I had forgotten about virtual tape 
(supported on v 7.2?)   The biggest issue with save to vTape or save to 
vOptical is that the JS12 has only 260GB of storage and 77% of it is 
used.  On the new box I have 1.7TB storage and about 4% used so, plenty 
of space over there.

I might take the savrstlib approach, just to get the libraries over to 
the new box with more space and then use vTape to save them.  Then back 
up the tape file to a couple of locations and then blow away the 
libraries I don't currently need.

The IFS is less of a concern.  Most of what is on the JS12 is expendable 
and the stuff I want to keep I can just copy over to the new box.

About time to clean up 38 years of accumulated cruft....

Pete Helgren
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On 11/16/2020 4:11 PM, Alan Campin wrote:
> The only problem that I could see with that suggestion would be that an
> image catalog can be a max of 1TB. If the libraries are small (Less than
> 1TB) it would be ok. If not, you would have to create multiple virtual tape
> devices.
>
> If bigger than one TB probably better to use a CL script and a CPYTOSTMF to
> move the save files to an IFS folder.
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 1:27 PM Peter Dow<petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > Hi Pete,
> >
> > How about a virtual tape so you can save multiple libraries at a time,
> > then copy the tape files to USB?
> >
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