Cache-A Tape Catalog Error Message

[Lindsay Simpson]

My bad again…should have mentioned we are all PC based, so unfortunately Telestream is not a option. Given the text file is not required to restore….why then, does CatDV say the files are missing?
Check out this screen shot…I had attached the wrong one in my last post.

catalog_restore_attempt_ae.jpg

Which reminds me, about a question I had as I think I am missing a step when it comes to restoring through CatDV. With the correct archive tape loaded in the CacheA, is it required to manually pull all of it’s contents to the VTAPE, prior to using the restore function in CatDV? I have feeling that will fix the error I experienced above.

I will go ahead and erase/re-archive the troublesome tape. No big loss there. Thanks for confirming.

Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

Thanks for the info Tom. I just wanted to confirm that the tape which produced the error was not permanently corrupted.

When you use the term loads, you are referring to the number of times a tape was inserted and read by the CacheA correct? Just want to verify. I will keep that information in mind. Luckily we have not come close to that load limit with any particular tape, but I have noticed some ‘Space Lost’ on various archive tapes. I will be sure to keep an on eye on that in the future.

Thanks,
Lindsay

[Lindsay Simpson]

You are spot on when you say the ‘LASTCLIP.txt’ file is unnecessary. I performed a test I had yet to think of. While Premiere no longer recognizes the media as specifically P2 media provided thumbnail images in the Media Browser, the footage can still be imported by selecting the clips within the ‘Video’ folder of the media directory.

Just a reference for future thread readers mostly.