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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Kohei Taguchi, Yokohama, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: sending an instruction to write a first copy of a first portion of data to a first partition on a first tape, and sending an instruction to write a second copy of the first portion of data to a second partition on a second tape. The first tape has at least the first partition and a second partition, while the second tape also has at least a first partition and the second partition. The first partition on each of the first and second tapes is closer to a beginning of the respective tape than the second partition on the respective tape. The second tape is also different than the first tape.