Patent ID: 8886606

Claim:
A computerized method, comprising: accessing a shared file system on a network attached storage (NAS) disk-based device; accessing a tape file system on a linear tape open (LTO) tape-based device; and exchanging a file between the shared file system and the linear tape file system using a file system based approach throughout the exchange, where exchanging the file includes reading the file from a mounted shared file system volume on the NAS device using the shared file system, and providing the file to a linear tape file system (LTFS) volume on the LTO tape-based device after adding LTFS specific metadata to the file and after removing shared file system specific metadata from the file; and where exchanging the file includes reading the file from a mounted LTFS volume on the LTO tape-based device using the LTFS, and providing the file to the shared file system volume mounted on the NAS disk-based device after adding shared filed system specific metadata to the file and after removing LTFS specific metadata from the file.