Tape Archive Mass Storage Facility

Description

Availability

SCV is now providing access to Information Technology's mass storage system running IBM's ADSM software. The mass storage is intended for the long term archiving of large files rather than for regular backups; for example archiving the contents of one's /project, /projectnb, /project2, /projectnb1, or /projectnb2 directory. Users have complete control over the archiving and restoration of files. There is no need to contact an operator for restoration operations.

To get started, simply type

    twister% archive /path/mydirectory  

and the contents of /path/mydirectory including all subdirectories will be written to tape. You can verify this with the command

    twister% archive -query /path/mydirectory  

Using the query option to find a desired file, you may then restore it with a command like

    twister% archive -retrieve /path/mydirectory/myfile /tmp  

which will restore myfile to /tmp/mydirectory/myfile . You may also restore entire directories and directory trees.

See here for a more detailed description of the use of the archive command.