Hints and tips
The topics in this section provide hints and tips for using the IBM Spectrum Archive™.
- Sharing a mounted tape library among multiple users
This topic describes the requirements for sharing a mounted tape library among multiple users of the IBM Spectrum Archive on a Linux system. - Performance considerations
Performance considerations when you use IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition. - Accessing volumes from Windows using CIFS
This topic describes how to change the session timeout value in order to access volumes from Windows when using the common internet file system (CIFS). - Data placement policy
This topic describes how the IBM Spectrum Archive uses the data placement policy. - File permissions
How file permissions are managed on the IBM Spectrum Archive. - Mounting Spectrum Archive Library Edition by a user other than root
How to mount Spectrum Archive Library Edition by a user other than root on Linux systems. - Directory size
This topic describes the directory size display in the IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition. - File name characters
The following information lists the characters that should not or cannot be used for file, directory, or extended attribute names in IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition. Differences in portability when you assign names between Linux and platforms such as Windows are also discussed. - Extended attributes
How IBM Spectrum Archive uses extended attributes. - Sync operation
The synchronization (sync) feature of IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition. - Overwriting or erasing a file
Methods that IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition uses to modify data as if it were overwritten or erased. - Copying a file on the same tape medium
The following method can be used to improve IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition performance when it copies a file on the same tape medium. - Multiple instances of Spectrum Archive Library Edition on Linux systems
How multiple instances of IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition can run simultaneously on Linux systems. (Windows systems do not support multiple libraries.) - File system tree structure
This topic describes how the file system tree is structured for the IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition. - Metadata management
The topics in this section describe metadata management on the IBM Spectrum Archive. - Tape drive cleaning
How tape libraries clean tape drives on the IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition. - Configuring cartridge volume serial numbers
How to set up the display of cartridge volume serial numbers (VOLSERs) depending on the use of a single generation or multiple generations of tape drives. - Drive firmware requirements for enhanced partitioning
Enhanced partitioning is available with TS1140 and later tape drives. There are firmware level requirements for using enhanced partitioning with the IBM® TS1140 tape drive. - Sharing Spectrum Archive by using NFS on a Linux system
How to share IBM Spectrum Archive on a Linux system. - Time stamp handling on Spectrum Archive Library Edition
How time stamps are managed by the IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition. - Remaining capacity of Spectrum Archive
The IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition returns the fixed value against the file system status on the operating system. - Windows-specific features and procedures
The topics in this section describe Windows-specific features and procedures that are used with the IBM Spectrum Archive. - Enabling SNMP
Complete this task to enable the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps in the IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition system. - Configuring default settings for adminchannel
Default values for adminchannel can be configured by editing the ltfs.conf.local file.
Parent topic: Managing