Sun Microsystems 2.1 manual Copying Content, 1Loading Content with smctar

Content

Package (tar format)

TOC file

Input to the Media Stream Manager

smc_tar

--verifies TOC format --extracts index files --extracts MPEG files

index files

mfs_create

FIGURE 5-1Loading Content with smc_tar

MFS

files

(MPEG)

After loading content with smc_tar, you can pass a TOC file (title name) as an argument to MSM Client API functions (described in the Sun MediaCenter Server Programmer’s Guide), to play the title described by that TOC file.

If a disk failure occurs when smc_tar is writing a title to a disk controlled by the Media File System (MFS), all files associated with that title—including the TOC file and index files—are erased.

5.3.3Copying Content

With the c option, smc_tar copies all of the files associated with a title from one or more Sun MediaCenter servers to a tar device or file. This operation is illustrated in FIGURE 5-2.

5-10Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997