AMASS Overview
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:
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At the Target | Introduce the media, where the specified volume group resides, |
AMASS System | to the target File System Database. |
| Use the vgimport command to import the |
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| 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. |
Online Archiving with AMASS |