Re: Help with Virtual Tape Save

Treat the virtual tape as you would a physical one. If you use expiration dates (which I recommend) then you can just use the tape when it expires. Otherwise you'll you can initialize it again.

Don't touch the image itself.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 10/28/2011 11:56 AM, Willie J. Moore wrote:

That's it.
Do I have to clear the virtual tape image before running it again?
Willie...

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DUPTAP FROMDEV(VRTTAP) TODEV(TAP01)


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From: "Willie J. Moore"<WJMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 10/28/2011 12:25 PM
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Thanks,
That did it. Was able to save to virtual tape and restore.
How do I save the virtual file to tape?
William

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Wrkimgclg then opt 12 on the catalog then option 6 on the image.



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Date: 10/27/2011 04:34 PM
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Tommy,
Sorry took me so long to response back. I wanted to call 'savlib' from
CL.
When do I find opt6?
Thanks,
William

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Did you take option 6 on the entry to*mount* the tape prior to trying
to save to the drive?





From: "Willie J. Moore"<WJMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 10/25/2011 01:46 PM
Subject: Help with Virtual Tape Save
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I have created a virtual tape on our Iseries for nightly saves.
When I run the following command, I get an error.

"SAVLIB LIB(WJMWORK) DEV(TAPVRT01) "
Device TAPVRT01 was not ready or next volume was not loaded. (C R)

This is how I added the new image catalog entry:
ADDIMGCLGE IMGCLG(TAPVRTSAVE) FROMFILE(*new) TOFILE(vol001)
IMGSIZ(10000) TEXT('Add Image Catalog Entry') ALCSTG(*IMGSIZ)
VOLNAM(VOL001) VOLTYP(*SL)
DENSITY(*VRT256K)

Image catalog entry added to image catalog TAPVRTSAVE.

I have made sure that tapvrt01 is varied on.

Any suggestion on what I might have done wrong or ideal would be greatly
appreciated.

William Moore
California Fine Wire
805-489-5144
wjmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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