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Backing Up OMFI Media
Hey all. We have a Lanshare Unity which has a total capacity of about 2TB. Is it possible to go into each of our partitioned drives and literally just Drag and Drop the OMFI folder with all the Avid Media files onto a 3TB G-Raid External for example?
I ask because we might be moving our Unity and have it dis connected and connected again in the new space and we’d just like to have a backup of all the media. If the media were to for whatever reason get corrupted and unsalvageable, would dragging and dropping the OMFI folders back into the Unity from the G-Raid put all the media back online in sync with our project files (which are already backed up)? Thanks
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Yes.
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Ok great. And what if for some reason we needed to bring this footage into a completely different Avid at another Post House, would it still go online with the loaded in project files? Better yet, what if it was a different version of Avid (Adrenaline, Nitris, etc)? We have an old version, Version 12.
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If you are now on v12, you can take the sequences and media up to any other Avid, except for pre-1998 ABVB and NuVista systems. Any modern Avid can create and read Meridien resolutions and projects. You can even go the other way, except that you might use elements/features that the v12 does not know about, and it might choke on those.
One caveat is that if you are taking your stuff FROM the Lanshare TO local storage, you will slightly need to alter the folder structure on the media drives, compared to how they are on the Lanshare.
On a Media Network, the folder structure is:
X:\Avid MediaFiles\OMFI MediaFiles\USER.n\abcde12345.omfOn local storage, the folder structure should be
X:\Avid MediaFiles\OMFI MediaFiles\abcde12345.omfIf the folder structure is different, Avid won’t see the media.
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Ok great! Thank you for this information!
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