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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2020
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Tohru Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Kikuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Takuya Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Asako Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Xiangning Liu, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01); G06F 3/0686 (2013.01);
Abstract
Storage pools having categorized archival storage tapes according to content of files stored on each tape. Archiving new files into the storage pools according to content of the new files for efficient retrieval of files from storage tapes organized by category of content. Recall of multiple files from archival storage tapes to primary storage of an hierarchical storage management system is efficiently performed such that tape mounting operations are minimized.