Chapter 2

Filer Administration Basics

Overview

About this chapter

This chapter describes routine filer administration procedures that you need regardless of the file-sharing protocols licensed for your filer.

This chapter emphasizes the filer characteristics that distinguish the filer from a general-purpose server.

Other protocol-independent administration procedures

Use the following table to locate procedures for managing other filer features that are independent of file-sharing protocols.

Read... If you want to manage...
Chapter 3, "Disk and File System Management" Disks, file systems (volumes), or RAID groups.
Chapter 11, "Snapshots" Snapshots.
Chapter 13, "Quotas and Maximum Number of Files Quotas or the maximum number of files the filer stores.
Chapter 14, "Data Backup" Backups.

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