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Administrative Tasks
FileServ Version 4.3
February, 2001
600716 Rev A
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Trademark Notice AMASS, DataMgr, EMASS, FileServ, and VolServ are either trademarks or registered trademarks of ADIC, Advanced Digital Information Corporation. DAS is a trademark of Grau, an ADIC subsidiary. All other product names and identifications are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Copyright Notice Copyright © 1996-2001 by ADIC. All rights reserved. This document is the property of ADIC. No part of this document may be reproduced, transmitted, transcri
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Contents Preface Purposeof This Book ................................................ P-3 WhoShouldReadThis Book ......................................... P-3 HowThis BookisOrganized ......................................... P-3 Conventions ....................................................... P-4 Books ............................................................. P-5 OnlineBooks .................................................... P-5 RelatedPublications ......................................
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Administrative Tasks StoreandTruncate Files ..........................................1-10 Database Maintenance ...........................................1-10 chk_point.pl .................................................1-11 checkDBALL .................................................1-12 keyBuildAll ..................................................1-14 CommandLineMode .........................................1-16 InteractiveMode .............................................1-17 RecoverDataba
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Administrative Tasks Edit Devices with fsconfig Command ...........................1-48 AddaLibrary ................................................1-49 Edit Device ..................................................1-50 DeleteaDevice ...............................................1-50 Generate Report ..............................................1-51 ChangeComponentState .........................................1-53 AddandDelete Drives ...........................................1-55 Fine-tunePar
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Administrative Tasks Policies .........................................................2-31 StoragePolicy ................................................2-32 CleanupPolicy ...............................................2-34 OverflowPolicy ..............................................2-35 StoringandRetrieving Data ..........................................2-40 StoreFiles ......................................................2-40 CleanUpDatafromDisk .........................................2-42
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Administrative Tasks Media States ....................................................2-63 StorageLimit ....................................................2-65 Generate Media Reports ..........................................2-66 Media Information ............................................2-66 Media List ...................................................2-68 Utilities 3 Utilities ............................................................3-3 fspic ...........................................
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Administrative Tasks DumpData ......................................................4-9 RestoreData ....................................................4-11 Audit Database ..................................................4-17 FileSystem Recovery ..........................................4-17 Database Maintenance ........................................4-18 Running fsaudit Command ....................................4-18 Troubleshoot SystemPerformance ....................................4-20 Rep
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Preface P Purposeof This Book .......................P-3 WhoShouldReadThis Book.................P-3 HowThis BookisOrganized ................P-3 Conventions...............................P-4 Preface Books.....................................P-5 OnlineBooks ...........................P-5 RelatedPublications.....................P-6 ContactPublicationsDepartment..........P-6 SecuredWebSite........................P-6
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Administrative Tasks NOTES P-2 Preface 600716 Rev A
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Preface Administrative Tasks This book describes the management tasks, utilities, and Purpose of troubleshooting tools used in operating FileServ. This Book This book is written for the system administrator who is Who Should operating and troubleshooting FileServ. Read This It assumes the administrator has a strong familiarity with: Book UNIX operating systems. Applications running in their site environment. This book contains the following chapters: How This Book is Chapter 1: Initial Tasks
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Administrative Tasks The conventions used throughout the FileServ technical books Conventions are listed below: Convention Example Screen text, file names, program names, and FS0000 03 204773 fsmedinfo commands are inCourier font. completed: Command Successful. The root prompt is shown as a percent sign. % su root What you should type in is shown in fsadmret Courier bold font. Site-specific variables are in a Times italics fsaudit newfilesystem font. A backward slash ( \ ) denotes the input is %
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Preface Administrative Tasks The books described below are part of the technical Books documentation set, and are shipped on CD: FileServ Overview Administrative Tasks An overview of FileServ. Contains a System tasks, operating tasks, FileServ glossary. utilities, and troubleshooting problems. Installing FileServ Command Reference Describes: server requirements, installation An alphabetical list of FileServ procedures, configuration parameters, and commands. tools to troubleshoot install problem
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Administrative Tasks The publications described in the table below are created and Related distributed on an as-needed basis. Publications Related Publications Description “Release Notes” For each version of FileServ, the “Release Notes” contain: Summary of enhancements. Describes: -Fixedproblems. - Known problems. - Installation and configuration issues. Lists: - Operating system patches. - System requirements. “Product Alerts” Informs customers of technical problems and solutions. “Produ
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System Tasks General Parameters..................1-28 1 SystemAdministrationParameters....1-28 DefaultParameters..................1-36 FileRetentionParameters ............1-39 VolServ-specific Parameters ..........1-40 InstallationParameters...............1-41 SoftwareMaintenanceParameters.....1-43 System Tasks Media StatsParameters ..............1-44 LoggingParameters .................1-44 Edit System Parameters..............1-46 ReconfigureSystemDevices.............1-47 Edit Devices with fscon
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Administrative Tasks Roadmap Refer To Topic Chapter Initialize FileServ, configure interface with 1 VolServ, perform start up and shut down, modify system configuration, and tune system for better performance. Manage: DataClass Groups, files, migration, 2 data, and media. Using the FileServ utilities. 3 Troubleshoot operating problems. 4 Note For complete information on the FileServ commands used in these tasks, refer to the Command Reference book. Status for the commands used in these tasks is
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System Tasks Administrative Tasks Running FileServ for the first time involves the following tasks Initialize listed in the table below: FileServ Task Page Access the Host Server 1-3 Interface to VolServ 1-4 Register the Configuration 1-6 Define DataClass Groups 1-6 Associate Directories 1-7 Media Under FileServ Management 1-8 Create Migration Policies 1-9 To access the host where FileServ has been installed to transfer Access the files to or from the migration directories, use one of the Host S
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Administrative Tasks After both FileServ and VolServ have been installed and Interface to initially configured, drive pool and association of a MediaClass VolServ group with a library must be established within VolServ for FileServ communications. Drive Pools A drive pool is composed of a single drive or group of drives that have the same capability. Drive pool names used within FileServ must exist in VolServ before any data transfer operations can be performed. A drive pool is assigned a unique
