ADIC 6-00028-01 Rev A Purpose of This Book, Who Should, Read This, Book, How This Book is Organized

Managing the AMASS File System

This book describes the management tasks, commands, utilities, and troubleshooting tools used to operate AMASS and manage the AMASS file system.

This book is written for the system administrators who use the command line to operate and troubleshoot AMASS.

It assumes the administrators have a strong familiarity with:

•The appropriate UNIX operating system

•Applications running in their site environment

This book contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1: Initial Setup Tasks — Use AMASS commands to prepare the file system and media for use by AMASS. These tasks include the following:

•Preparing a Backup Volume

•Creating an entry in the File System Database for all media

•Assigning volume groups

Chapter 2: Operational Tasks — Use AMASS commands to manage the AMASS file system. These tasks include the following:

•Modifying the schedule to back up the AMASS File System Database

•Switching drives in and out of service

6-00028-01 Rev A

Preface

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