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Tape and Media Types

CA VM:Backup backs up data to two types of storage:

A physical tape can be any of the tape media listed in the tables in Tape Drives, Media, Density Names, and TMC Values. If a job is using physical tapes, CA VM:Backup issues requests for the operator or CA VM:Tape to mount those tapes. The requests state explicitly the type of tape media required.

DASDtape is a CMS file created when CA VM:Backup backs up data to disk. For more information, see DASDtapes.

Tape Drives, Media, Density Names, and TMC Values also lists the density names you specify in CA VM:Backup to request use of specific recording formats or densities for each tape media type.