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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Tohru Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Itagaki, Yokohama, JP;
Tsuyoshi Miyamura, Yokohama, JP;
Terue Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method according to one embodiment includes instructing a first tape drive to load a parent tape medium, and instructing the first tape drive to retrieve identification (ID) information about the parent tape medium from metadata stored (saved) thereon. The first tape drive is instructed to write a first file part of a file to the parent tape medium. Information about the file and information about the first file part are written to the parent tape medium as metadata. A second tape drive is instructed to load and retrieve ID information about a child tape medium from metadata stored thereon. The second tape drive is instructed to write one or more subsequent file parts of the file to the child tape medium. The first tape drive is instructed to write the ID information about the child tape medium and attribute information about the one or more subsequent file parts stored to the child tape medium as metadata to the parent tape medium.