Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Physical tape interchange format
- Patent Title (中): 物理磁带交换格式
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Application No.: US11697004Application Date: 2007-04-05
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Publication No.: US07774566B2Publication Date: 2010-08-10
- Inventor: Thomas H. Daily , Gregory T. Kishi , Norie Iwasaki , Kerri R. Shotwell , Joseph M. Swingler
- Applicant: Thomas H. Daily , Gregory T. Kishi , Norie Iwasaki , Kerri R. Shotwell , Joseph M. Swingler
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Konrad Raynes & Victor LLP
- Agent Rabindranath Dutta
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F13/00 ; G06F13/28
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080250197A1 Physical Tape Interchange Format Public/Granted day:2008-10-09
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