You are correct, but the metadata is all there. I populated it with the log shipping stored procedures as detailed in BOL:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188708(v=sql.105).aspx
If the metadata wasn't there, nothing would work at all and it wouldn't even know where to start looking for the log files.
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