Sun Microsystems MEDIACENTER 2.1 User Manual

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Chapter 5

Sun MediaCenter Server Utilities

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The preceding command differs from the one before it in two respects, indicated by
the

and

options. The

option means that you are prompted before files of the

same name are overwritten. The

option, in combination with the value of 40,

specifies that

smc_tar

uses a block size of 40 rather than the default of 20.

You can use

smc_tar

with the

option from a remote host, extracting content

packages to a Sun MediaCenter server:

The following command shows how you can use the

option of

smc_tar

from a

machine remote from a Sun MediaCenter server.

The preceding command copies the title “Bambi” on the server

smc_server

to a

local tape device. This command can be extended as follows:

The preceding command copies the title “Bambi” on

smc_server1

and the title

“Flipper” on

smc_server2

to a local tape device.

Because of the size of the files containing video content, it is usually preferable to
create the

tar

file for a content package as piped input to

smc_tar

, rather than

creating the

tar

file, then invoking

smc_tar

as a separate command. For example,

on the Sun MediaCenter server, enter:

Note that the TOC file is the first argument to

tar

. This is a requirement of a content

package. The preceding command presumes that the TOC and content files are
accessible from the Sun MediaCenter server. Where these files are remote from the
Sun MediaCenter server, you can use a command such as:

server# smc_tar xf /dev/rmt/0 smc_server:bambi

remote_host# smc_tar cf /dev/rmt/0 smc_server:bambi

remote_host# smc_tar cf /dev/rmt/0n smc_server1:bambi

remote_host# smc_tar cf /dev/rmt/0n smc_server2:flipper

server# tar cf

.TOC

.mpg | smc_tar xf

remote_host# tar cf

.TOC

.mpg | smc_tar xf \

smc_server: