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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bernd Freitag, Partenheim, DE;
Brian G. Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Frank Krick, Ockenheim, DE;
Tim Oswald, Gimbsheim, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Transferring data from a first data storage drive of a first data storage library to a first computer system that is connected to a second data storage drive of a second data storage library. A data transfer request for transferring data accessible by the first data storage drive to the first computer system is received. A network connection is initiated between the first and the second data storage drive. An access to the requested data is initiated by the first data storage drive. A transfer of the requested data from the first to the second data storage drive via the network connection is initiated. A transfer of the requested data from the second data storage drive to the first computer system is initiated.