HP File Archiving Software manual Creating FTP archives, Preparing FTP archives for FMA

•Ignore system name—Select this option if you do not want the storage descriptors for this archive to include the system name. This option is required for cluster systems. If you use this option, you must ensure that the storage descriptor is unique without the system name.

•Ignore volume serial—Select this option if you do not want to the storage descriptors for this archive to include the serial number of the local managed file system. If you use this option, you must ensure that the storage descriptor is unique without the volume serial number.

8.Click Save.

9.In the Archive Properties dialog box, click OK.

Creating FTP archives

On a managed volume, a managed file contains file attributes, security information, HSM metadata, and the default data stream. In FTP archives, the managed file is stored in an envelope.

Because of how the managed file is stored, no direct file access is available except through a packing and unpacking utility. For more information, see Using FmaFileUtil to work with FTP archives on page 37.

Preparing FTP archives for FMA

FTP archives require additional configuration before they can be used with FMA. The RSA-FTP module uses FTP commands including the following, which are not supported on all servers:

•STOR (Defined in RFC765)

•RETR (Defined in RFC765)

•MDTM (Extension)

•SIZE (Extension)

The steps to make these commands available and to configure FTP archives to work with FMA vary depending on the FTP server and operating system, as described in the following sections. You must perform one of the following procedures.

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