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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2007
Thomas H. Daily, Pinetop, AZ (US);
Gregory T. Kishi, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Norie Iwasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kerri R. Shotwell, Tucson, AZ (US);
Joseph M. Swingler, Tucson, AZ (US);
Thomas H. Daily, Pinetop, AZ (US);
Gregory T. Kishi, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Norie Iwasaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kerri R. Shotwell, Tucson, AZ (US);
Joseph M. Swingler, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A virtual tape server for executing a method involving a partitioning of a virtual tape volume into a plurality of virtual tape blocks. The virtual tape volume includes a virtual tape volume header having recovery information, each virtual tape block includes a virtual tape block header identifying the virtual tape volume and a block sequence number, and one or more of the virtual tape blocks includes the virtual tape volume header. The method further involves a formatting of a physical tape volume including each virtual tape block.