RE: Full save to virtual tape?

IBM i virtual tape
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_73/rzam4/rzam4virtualtape.htm

It looks like a full save doesn't do SAVSTG, so we should be good.


We'd immediately DUPTAP to a physical tape. The use of virtual tape would be to shorten the system downtime. The question remains whether the time gain would be significant enough to bother.

Thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2019 8:54 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Full save to virtual tape?

I assume by "virtual tape" you are not talking about a VTL, or Virtual Tape Library. But, instead you are talking about CRTDEVTAP DEVD(TAPVRT01) RSRCNAME(*VRT) ASSIGN(*YES)

With VTL, I do it all the time. With the TAPVRT01 thing, I've not tried a full system save.
I assume you know the downfall of this thing, like, how would you restore from that, etc. And you plan on FTPing that to another system and doing a DUPTAP to other tape. Like before we had VTL and we wanted to do a remote save, FTP it over to another system and do a DUPMEDBRM there. Yes, BRMS recognizes these virtual tapes, and plays well with them. We normally used them for less than full system saves though.