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6-00026-01 Rev A Online Archiving with AMASS 1-23
The metadata contains the directory structure and media
attributes (such as media type, ownership, and timestamp) for a
specified volume group. The metadata is located in
/usr/amass/filesysdb and is exported as standard ASCII
text. Send this file to the target AMASS site using FTP (File
Transfer Protocol) or a similar tool.
The following figure illustrates these steps:
At the Target
AMASS System
Introduce the media, where the specified volume group resides,
to the target File System Database.
Use the vgimport command to import the metadata—that was
sent by FTP—into the target File System Database.
AMASS compares the metadata with the volume number in the
library and expects it to be the same. If there is a discrepancy,
AMASS returns an error.
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2. Unload volumes assigned
to specified volume group.
1. Export metadata that describes
specified volume group.
Metadata
File
AMASS