[lm-announce] HSM renabled

[Jonathan Buzzard]

The server move has gone smoothly, and HSM is now available again on the LMF.

For the record HSM, is an abbreviation for Hierarchical storage management. It is the means by which we move files no longer being used to tape and recall them if you try and access them. When it is suspended you have no access to files that are migrated to tape.

Due to improvements in the why the HSM software works and is configured, and the fact we have much more disk, recalls are now comparatively rare events.

For more information, the obligatory Wikipedia article on the subject

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_management


JAB.



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Jonathan A. Buzzard                      Tel: +441382-386998
Storage Administrator, College of Life Sciences
University of Dundee, DD1 5EH

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