System Planning OVS administrators are responsible for creating a real-time video system that meets their organization's needs. The OVS provides command-line utilities for managing multimedia content. In addition to loading the content file, you must create a tag file with the vstag utility. Tag files include information such as the file's name or title, the encoded bit rate of the file, and the file's position within the MDS volume. Performing Backups Performing backups is especially important for digital video files.
Video files tend to be large, and so take considerable time to load and tag.
The OVS includes the mdstar utility for creating tar archives to a tape device. The MDS is a disk system that provides real-time access to multimedia data. As your video library grows, you will need to add additional volumes to the MDS, rename volumes, and, on occasion, replace failed disk drives. The OVS includes command-line utilities for monitoring system activity and a logging system for tracking informational and error messages. All Rights Reserved.