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

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Contents
Preface
Purpose of This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P-3
Who Should Read This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P-3
How This Book is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P-3
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P-4
Online Archiving with AMASS 1
Using AMASS to Archive Your Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-3
Archive versus Backup and Restore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-4
Files Viewed as Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-4
Documentation Set Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-5
Benefits of Using AMASS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-6
Database Improves Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-6
Faster Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-7
Less Media Contention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-7
Automated Backups via Cron Job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-8
Design Prevents Thrashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-9
Cache Optimizes Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-9
Configurable Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-10
Virtually Unlimited File System Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-10
Volume Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-11
Uniform Media in Numerical and Cleaning Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-13
Disparate Media in the Space Pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-13