This document addresses the needs of system administrators, storage and network administrators, and service engineers who may have to recover damaged or lost files, file systems, and archiving solutions using Oracle Hierarchical Storage Manager (formerly StorageTek Storage Archive Manager).
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This document assumes that you are already familiar with Oracle Solaris operating system, storage, and network administration. Please refer to the Solaris documentation and man pages and to storage hardware documentation for information on relevant tasks, commands, and procedures.
The following textual conventions are used in this document:
Italic type represents book titles and emphasis.
Monospace type represents commands and text displayed in a terminal window and the contents of configuration files, shell scripts, and source code files.
Monospace bold type represents user inputs and significant changes to commandline output, terminal displays, or file contents. It may also be used to emphasize particularly relevant parts of a file or display.
Monospace bold oblique type represents variable inputs and outputs in a terminal display or file.
Monospace oblique type represents other variables in a terminal display or file.
... (three-dot ellipsis marks) represent file contents or command output that is not relevant to the example and has thus been omitted for brevity or clarity.
[ - ] (brackets surrounding values separated by a hyphen) delimit value ranges.
[ ] (brackets) in command syntax descriptions indicate optional parameters.
root@solaris-host:~# represents a Solaris command shell prompt.
[root@linux-host ~]# represents a Linux command shell prompt.
The Oracle Hierarchical Storage Manager and StorageTek QFS Software File System Recovery Guide is part of the multivolume Oracle HSM Customer Documentation Library, available from http://docs.oracle.com/en/storage/#sw.
Oracle Solaris operating system documentation is available at http://docs.oracle.com/en/operating-systems/.