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NAME

       pmlogmv - move (rename) Performance Co-Pilot archive files

SYNOPSIS

       pmlogmv [-NV] oldname newname

DESCRIPTION

       A  Performance  Co-Pilot  (PCP)  archive  consists  of multiple files as created by pmlogger(1).  pmlogmv
       allows all the files of a single PCP archive to be moved or renamed as a group in a single operation.

       The oldname argument identifies the target archive, and may be either the basename that is common to  all
       files in that archive or one of the archive's files.  The new archive's basename is newname.

       The  -N  option  performs a dry-run, checking and reporting what changes would be made without making any
       changes.

       Additional reporting verbosity may be requested with the -V option.

       Because PCP archives are important records of system activity,  special  care  is  taken  to  ensure  the
       integrity  of  an archive's files.  For recoverable problems encountered during the execution of pmlogmv,
       all the files associated with oldname will be preserved, and no new files with the newname prefix will be
       created.   ``Recoverable  problems''  include signals that can be caught (such as SIGHUP, SIGINT, SIGQUIT
       and SIGTERM), permissions issues, new files already existing, file system full events, etc.

       The implementation of pmlogmv uses hard links in the file system and so follows the semantic restrictions
       of  ln(2)  which  for  most systems means the directories containing both the oldname and the newname PCP
       archive files need to be writeable and within the same file system.

SEE ALSO

       ln(2) and pmlogger(1).

DIAGNOSTICS

       All error and warning messages are intended to be easily understood and errors produce  a  non-zero  exit
       status.