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## About This Guide

This publication documents features and installation procedures for the Data Migration Facility (DMF), release 2.8, on SGI Altix 3000 systems running the Linux operating system and other SGI systems running the IRIX operating system 6.5 and later releases.

## Related Publications

The following documents contain additional information that may be helpful:

- DMF Administrator's Guide describes how to configure and administer DMF.

- DMF Recovery and Troubleshooting Guide describes how to solve problems with DMF should you encounter them.

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## 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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