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This ﬁle provides data for incremental recovery after power outage or similar in- convenient situations. If this ﬁle does not exist then recovery will start from ﬁle ID 1. When a recovery from scratch is required, this ﬁle has to be deleted. At the end of successful recovery operation this ﬁle is deleted.

Recovery will be done to native FS (Ext3 on Linux systems, NTFS on Windows systems).

File state after recovery:

1.After the recovery of HSM FS I–node information will be inconsistent with old data in FSC and FRI. I–nodes of the ﬁles are not the same as before recovery.

2.File access and create time will be set properly, other ﬁle time attributes may be not set during recovery.

3.File will be ofﬂine.

4.Directory may not have proper change, modify, and access time set. This depends on ﬁles that are restored after directory.

1.If NSC does not exist for particular FSE partition then HSM FS recovery from NSC is not possible. This could occur after upgrade from old version of FSE in case that NSC is not recreated for an existing FSE partition and some disaster happens.

2.It is not recommended to start recovery of HSM FS in case that NSC database is not fully recreated after upgrade of FSE system. In that case results will not be as expected.

3.Symbolic links cannot be recovered because they are not written to tape (no migration of symbolic link to FSE media).

4.Windows Alternate Data Streams (ADS) will be not fully supported for re- covery (recall of ADS is not supported yet). The names of ADS will be stored in NSC, but not data, therefore they will not be recoverable until they can be recalled from tape.

HP StorageWorks File System Extender Software CLI reference

File System Extender (FSE) specifications

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