Disclosed is a system to diagnose and handle errors in an automated hierarchical storage management system. A host system requests an access operation on a first file, such as a logical volume, in a first storage device, such as a magnetic hard disk drive. A server processes the host request to determine...http://www.google.de/patents/US6023709?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6023709 - Automated file error classification and correction in a hierarchical storage management system