AMASS Overview

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

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Online Archiving with AMASS

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