Managing the AMASS File System

Remove Media From Library

The following steps describe how to remove a volume after it has been written to by AMASS.

Note

For detailed information on the commands used in these steps, see the "Command Reference" chapter.

Step

Command

Description

 

 

 

 

1

 

When you installed AMASS, you accept the default value

 

 

for the omm_timeout (Offline Media Management)

 

 

parameter, which is 120 seconds (2 minutes).

 

 

 

2

 

Clients wrote files to a volume for example volume number

 

 

47.

 

 

 

 

 

3

 

Log in as amass or root.

 

 

 

 

 

4

 

volstat -ivolumenumber

Mark the specified volume

 

 

For example:

INACTIVE in the AMASS File

 

 

System Database.

 

 

volstat -i 47

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5A

For SCSI-attached libraries:

 

 

 

 

 

 

voloutlet volumenumber

Ejects the volume from the

 

 

For example:

library.

 

 

 

 

 

voloutlet 47

AMASS marks it OFFLINE in

 

 

the File System Database.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5B

For network-attached libraries:

 

 

 

 

 

 

bulkoutlet -u

Ejects multiple volumes from

 

 

For example:

the library.

 

 

 

 

 

bulkoutlet 47

AMASS marks them OFFLINE

 

 

 

in the File System Database.

 

 

 

 

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