User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- Online Archiving with AMASS 1
- Accessing the Storage Network 2
- Technical Support 3
- Preface
- Online Archiving with AMASS
- Accessing the Storage Network
- Technical Support
- Glossary
- AMASS®
- API
- appended files
- archive
- backup
- bar code
- BFS
- bitfile
- bitfile ID
- cache
- cleaning group
- client
- DAS™
- DataClass group
- DataMgr™
- dead space
- DLT™
- DMFS
- drive pool
- drives
- Ethernet
- FCB
- FDDI
- file
- file import
- file replication
- FileServ™
- file system
- File System Database
- GUI
- HSM
- inode
- IP address
- IPI
- Journal
- jukebox
- label
- library
- mailbox
- media
- metadata
- migration
- multi-tier migration
- NFS
- NIS
- nonresident file
- optical
- Offline Media Manager
- RAID
- resident file
- RPC
- scattered writes
- SCSI Fast/Wide
- server
- SLD
- slot
- SMP
- space pool
- SSD
- standalone drives
- Storage Area Network
- storage policy
- striping
- stub file
- TCP/IP
- thrashing
- truncate
- UNIX™
- VBS
- volume
- volume group
- volume number
- VolServ™
- Windows NT™
- XDI
- Index
AMASS Overview
6-00026-01 Rev A Online Archiving with AMASS 1-3
Using AMASS
to Archive
Your Data
The Archival Management and Storage System (AMASS) is a
management tool for your storage solution.
Files are archived to media stored in robotic libraries,
jukeboxes, and standalone drives. The archived file system
managed by AMASS is supervised by a system administrator
who oversees the following components:
• File System
- Directory information
- IO activity
• Libraries, Jukeboxes, Standalone Drives
Status of elements
• Drives
- Dedicate drives for write-only or read/write
- Toggle online and offline status of drives
- Clean dirty drives
•Media
- Load, unload, and move media
- Read offline media
- Assign volume groups
- Assign media to a home storage slot
- Make media read-only or read/write
- Delete files on media