About This Guide

This publication documents administration of the Data Migration Facility (DMF) 3.1 on SGI Altix systems running the Linux operating system with SGI ProPack and other SGI systems running the IRIX operating system. For the currently supported release levels, see the DMF.Readme file.

Related Publications

See the DMF Administrator's Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage.

See the following files on the CD-ROM:

  • /CDROM/platform/DMF.Readme contains general information about DMF

  • /CDROM/platform/DMF.News contains a history of features and bug fixes provided with each DMF release

  • /CDROM/platform/DMF.Install contains installation instructions

For example, for the Solaris platform see:

/CDROM/solaris/DMF.Readme
/CDROM/solaris/DMF.News
/CDROM/solaris/DMF.Install

See the following man pages:

dmattr(1)
dmaudit(8)
dmatvfy(8)
dmfind(1)
dmfsmon(8)
dmfdaemon(8)
dmget(1)
dmhdelete(8)
dmlockmgr(8)
dmmigrate(8)
dmscanfs(8)
dmxfsrestore(8)
dmxfsprune(8)
nohup(1)
su(1)
vi(1)
xfsdump(1M) (IRIX)
xfsdump(8) (Linux)
xfsrestore(1M) (IRIX)
xfsrestore(8) (Linux)

Obtaining Publications

You can obtain SGI documentation as follows:

  • See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.

  • On IRIX systems, you can use InfoSearch (if installed), an online tool that provides a more limited set of online books, release notes, and man pages. Enter infosearch at a command line or select Help -> InfoSearch from the Toolchest.

  • On IRIX systems, you can view release notes by entering either grelnotes or relnotes at a command line.

  • On Linux systems, you can view release notes on your system by accessing the README file(s) for the product. This is usually located in the /usr/share/doc/productname directory, although file locations may vary.

  • On IRIX and Linux systems, you can view man pages by typing man title at a command line.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention 

Meaning

command 

This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.

manpage(x) 

Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.

variable 

Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.

user input 

This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.)

[ ] 

Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

... 

Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

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