Managing the AMASS File System

Requirements

Before using this command:

Two drives are required—one drive to read the source volume and one drive to write to the destination media. The drives can be either standalone or in a library.

-Although a standalone drive can be used, it is tedious because you must manually flip each volume several times. If you use a standalone drive you must also use the Standalone Operator Interface, which is run by using the sysop command. For complete information about this interface, refer to the Interface to Standalone Drives chapter in Accessing Storage Devices.

The source volume must be:

-Marked Online and Active in the File System Database

-In its home storage slot at the beginning of the volcopy process

The destination media must be:

-An unknown piece of media. Unknown media does not have a volume number assigned by AMASS; therefore, the volume does not have an entry in the Database.

If you need to use media previously used by AMASS, make sure you use the voldelete command to delete all the files on the media and to delete the volume number from the Database.

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