User's Manual

AMASS Overview
6-00026-01 Rev A Online Archiving with AMASS 1-11
When a volume is full, AMASS automatically selects the next
available volume to continue its operations. The volumes that
make up AMASS can be subdivided, if desired, into multiple
groups called volume groups.
Volume Groups Archiving files by projects can be achieved with volume groups
by assigning volumes to numerical volume groups to serve a
particular subdirectory tree.
Because these volume groups can be assigned to contain
specific directories, the system administrator can assign
volumes for specific purposes within AMASS without losing
the benefits of a single file system and a single mount point that
spans media. This concept is illustrated by the following figure:
Types of volume groups are listed below:
• A numeric group, 1 through 2047
• A space pool (SP)
• A cleaning group (CL)
• Media verification group (MV) for the optional Infinite File
Life feature
For more information about IFL, refer to the appendix in
Installing AMASS and in Managing the AMASS File System.
Library
/archive
/sales
/pubs
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Volume Group 2
AMASS archives /pubs
files to Volume Group 2
AMASS