Managing the AMASS File System

Step 2. If the source volume is not in its home storage slot, use the mediamove utility to move the source volume to its slot in the library.

When the volcopy process starts, the source volume must be in its home storage slot.

Step 3. To move the destination media to a position in the library, use the mediamove utility. For complete information on this utility, see “mediamove” on page 4-36.

Step 4. Run the volcopy command as shown in the following example:

The destination media is located in a standalone drive (n/a).

Force (-f) a copy.

#volcopy -cv -f 6 n/a 2

Verifies (-v) the copy (-c) process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The source volume number is 6.

 

 

 

 

Library

 

 

 

 

number is 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AMASS performs the following tasks:

•Loads the destination media from the standalone to a drive. If the volume needs formatting, AMASS performs this task.

•While the source volume is being copied, AMASS marks it as unavailable for both reads and writes.

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