Sun Microsystems 2.1 Server User Manual


 
5-10 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide December 1997
FIGURE 5-1 Loading Content with smc_tar
After loading content with smc_tar, you can pass a TOC file (title name) as an
argument to MSM Client API functions (described in the Sun MediaCenter Server
Programmer’s Guide), to play the title described by that TOC file.
If a disk failure occurs when smc_tar is writing a title to a disk controlled by the
Media File System (MFS), all files associated with that title—including the TOC file
and index files—are erased.
5.3.3 Copying Content
With the c option, smc_tar copies all of the files associated with a title from one or
more Sun MediaCenter servers to a tar device or file. This operation is illustrated in
FIGURE 5-2.
smc_tar
TOC
file
Content
Package
(tar format)
Input to the
Media Stream Manager
index
files
MFS
files
--verifies TOC format
--extracts index files
--extracts MPEG files
(MPEG)
mfs_create