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5-14 Sun MediaCenter Server Administrator’s Guide • December 1997
A useful technique for situations in which your MPEG file resides on CD-ROM is to
create a symbolic link from the directory where your TOC file resides to the file on
CD-ROM. You then use tar with the h option, which causes tar to follow symbolic
links. The following are example commands:
An alternative to the preceding commands is:
You can use commands such as those shown above to copy files to a remote Sun
MediaCenter server. For example:
server# ln -s /cdrom/cdrom0/<your content>.mpg <your content>.mpg
server# tar cfh - <your title>.TOC <your content>.mpg | smc_tar xf -
server# tar cf - <your title>.TOC -C /cdrom/cdrom0 <your content>.mpg | smc_tar xf -
remote_host# ln -s /cdrom/cdrom0/<your content>.mpg <your content>.mpg
remote_host# tar cfh - <your title>.TOC <your content>.mpg | smc_tar xf \
- smc_server:<your title>