RE: Tape Duplication Question

["Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One option might be to create a virtual tape drive/device and then dup to the virtual device.
Then move the result to the other system.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Harris
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2018 10:01 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Tape Duplication Question

Hi Diego

1. We can IPL from the VTL OK; we have done that on numerous occasions

2. To clarify:
    Box 1: IBM i with SAS attached drive; this is the FROM box
    Box 2: Power S822 with VIOS, SAS LTO drive and FC VTL, hosting a number
of i LPARs; this is the TO box

I guess the question is whether there is a tool that will copy the tape
"bye for byte" without trying to format it

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Diego Kesselman <diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Evan,
>
> 1st) check whether  IPLing from VTL is possible or not. Sometimes you
> can't because of firmware restrictions
>
> 2nd) I think you have the SAS LTO and VTL on BOX1 with AIX and only VTL on
> BOX2 with IBM i. Have you tried to create a tiny LPAR on BOX1 (even with
> temporary license) and access both devices at the same time?
>
> I don't think you can duplicate different tape formats using any tool
> different to IBM i OS and DUPTAP. Maybe with same tape drives you can get
> any kind of trick to physically/binary duplicate, but this is not even near
> that case. And you want to IPL from VTL...
>
>
> --

Regards
Evan Harris