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Chapter 5 Backing Up StorNext 71Types of StorNext Software Backups............................................................71
Setting up Email Notification For Backup............................................72
Performing a StorNext Software Backup..................................................... 73
Managing the Backup Policy..........................................................................74
Chapter 6 Managing the File System 77Working With File Systems............................................................................77
Adding a File System...............................................................................78
Creating a File System From SNFS........................................................ 86
Modifying a File System..........................................................................88
Deleting a File System..............................................................................89
Managing File System Operations................................................................ 90
Disk Device Labeling............................................................................... 90
Making Global Changes.......................................................................... 95
Working with the fsnameservers File....................................................99
Making or Unmaking a File System.....................................................100
Starting and Stopping the File System.................................................102
Mounting or Unmounting a File System.............................................103
Working With Disks......................................................................................104
Adding Disks...........................................................................................104
Deleting Disks.........................................................................................106
Defragmenting a Disk............................................................................107
Working With Stripe Groups.......................................................................107
Adding a Stripe Group..........................................................................108
Modifying a Stripe Group.....................................................................112
Deleting a Stripe Group.........................................................................115
Working With Affinities...............................................................................115
Adding an Affinity.................................................................................116
Adding an Affinity Through SNSM.................................................... 122
Setting the Affinity in a Directory........................................................124
Modifying an Affinity............................................................................126
Deleting an Affinity................................................................................127
File System Configuration Restrictions...............................................128
Performing a Metadata Dump.....................................................................128
Using the SNSM File System Functions.....................................................129
Storing Files.............................................................................................130
Changing a File Version.........................................................................132
Recovering a File.....................................................................................133
Recovering a Directory..........................................................................134