[Netarchivesuite-users] metadatafile arc files

[aponb at gmx.at]

Is it possible to add arc files to the suite which were produced by a 
heritrix instance without using the netarchive suite?
Of course I would need to insert the correct data into the database, but 
what about the metadata.arc file? Can I generate this file, based on my 
heretrix arc files? Am I right, when I say that file is a special file 
made by the netarchive suite and is not generated by the heritrix 
crawler? All statistics and log messages are written in that file. I 
also assume accessing arc files which have deduplicated data wouldn't 
work without these metadata files. Is this correct?
Thanks for reading!