Re: Virtual Tape format -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Virtual Tape format
From: cesco <emaxt6@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:55:30 +0000 (UTC)
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What do you want to achieve at an higher level?
Save directly to AWS or a local gateway that emulates tapes (VTL) via FC or iscsi?If you just want move the file to AWS for archival, just copy the file via S3 from the i ?
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On Monday, September 29, 2025 at 04:01:25 PM GMT+2, Joe George <jgeorge@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there documentation anywhere for the IFS file format of a tape image created in a virtual tape catalog?

Or better still, is there any utility to convert that virtual tape image into an AWS formatted tape file?

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