In MVS™, the storage administrator uses Data Facility System-Managed Storage Hierarchical Storage Manager (DFSMShsm) to automatically back up and archive hierarchical file systems.

In the shell, you can use tar, cpio, and pax to read or write an archive file in the file system.

You can copy archive files to an MVS data set, and then to tape. You can retrieve archive files from a tape into an MVS data set and then copy them into the file system.