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Hi Larry

that's kind of what I was thinking but I just had to ask.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 1:21 PM DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The only way is to mount them on a different system and duptap to a real
tape then use that real tape.

If that was a virtual optical instead you could at least boot it from
the network. I personally find no value in doing a SAVSYS to a virtual
tape, so little that I wasn't even aware that it is allowed!!


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On 9/17/2019 7:33 PM, Evan Harris wrote:
Hi Don

How do you actually use the Virtual Tapes "in anger" ? I am asking how
you
would specifically use an FTP'ed SAVSYS - what would you do with the
image
that would make it usable other than copy it to tape ?


On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:24 AM Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We use virtual tape regularly for these adhoc requirements, then ftp the
volumes to wherever we want.

Cheers



Don Brown



From: "B Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
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Date: 18/09/2019 02:06 AM
Subject: Space required for SAVSYS
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My apologies in advance for my ignorance of some of the systems
operations
as I so rarely perform them. :)

If I want to do a SAVSYS at V7R3 (prior to OS upgrade), and save only
the
system (not any 3rd party libraries) any idea how much space I need, and
can this be done to a thumb drive on a power 8 system?

I've looked around and using a save file doesn't appear to be the best
option for this, and I'm guessing that a DVD may not be big enough. No
tape drive on this system either. I have tested thumb drives and they
seem
to work fine.

I also have seen about the PTFs required for thumb drives over 32GB that
are required.

Or, if I am barking up the wrong tree entirely, feel free to tell me
that
as well.

Thanks.

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