Re: USB drive on the i

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No it may not. It must be local storage.

So you'd need to do the saves and restores completely on the i and then 
move the tape or optical volumes off box for storage.

You can READ optical volumes that are on NFS storage.

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On 4/27/2016 12:59 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

> Can something set up with NFS be the target of a virtual tape image
> catalog?  I thought I ran into issues.  Or was that just with QNTC?
>
> I have a NFS mount on my 'local' machine called /gdihq/tmp
> It is mounted over the /tmp directory on GDIHQ.
> I can do a WRKLNK '/gdihq/tmp' and see the contents of the /tmp directory
> on GDIHQ.
>
> But this fails
> CRTIMGCLG IMGCLG(TMP) DIR('/gdihq/tmp') TYPE(*TAP) CRTDIR(*NO)
> CPD4F06  Unable to determine absolute path name.  Error number 3025
> CPFBC02  Image catalog TMP was not created in library QUSRSYS.
> Message ID . . . . . . . . . :   CPE3025
> No such path or directory.
>
> Rob Berendt