
92 Sun StorageTek SAM Archive Configuration and Administration Guide • Version 4, Update 6, 04/07
The following list summarizes some of the similarities and differences between
archiving to online disk and archiving to removable media:
■ Unlike archive copies written to a magneto-optical disk or to a tape, archive
copies written to disk are not recorded in a catalog. In addition, archive files in
disk volumes do not appear in the historian.
■ If you are archiving to removable media volumes, you can begin archiving after
the file system is mounted without changing any of the default values in the
archiver.cmd file. In contrast, if you are archiving to disk volumes, you must
edit the archiver.cmd file and define disk archive sets before mounting the file
system.
■ Disk archiving does not rely on entries in the mcf file. You specify disk archive
sets in the archiver.cmd file, and you define disk volumes in
/etc/opt/SUNWsamfs/diskvols.conf.
Note – You do not need the diskvols.conf configuration file if you are archiving
to removable media volumes only.
A diskvols.conf file must be created on the system upon which the source files
reside. Depending on where the archive copies are written, this file also contains
the following information:
■ If the archive copies are written to a file system on that same host system, the
diskvols.conf file defines the VSNs and the paths to each VSN.
■ If the archive copies are written to a different Sun Solaris host system, the
diskvols.conf file contains the host name of that server system. In this case,
there must also be a diskvols.conf file on the server system that defines
clients that are given permission to write to that system. If you want to create
this client/server relationship, make sure that the host acting as the server has
at least one Sun StorageTek SAM file system installed on it before starting the
procedure described in “To Enable Disk Archiving” on page 95.
Caution – Extreme care must be taken when configuring the recycler if you are
using disk archiving in an environment with multiple SAM-QFS servers. The
diskvols.conf file for each SAM-QFS server must point to a unique set of disk
volume resource specifications (disk archiving target directories). If any of these are
shared between different SAM-QFS servers, then running the recycler from one
SAM-QFS server will destroy the disk archive data that is being managed by the
other SAM-QFS server.
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