Virtual Save & Transfer

While IBM System i? blade servers are invading the iSeries market, more and more customers with multiple systems or partitions would like to save on tape units and to have their system saves transferred to a system equipped with tape drives.

This open source utility provides a solution based on a single command that allows to save the system on virtual tape volumes, send the tape volume images to another system, and have it copy the tape images to real tape volumes.

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