HP Ultruim 3000 SAS on a Hackintosh

[Bruce Schultz]

Good information on that link Tim.

If I use BRU in 2014 and my client (whom I made the LTO tapes for with BRU) needs to access those tapes for a re-edit or other need to restore the data, do they need to have BRU software to read and restore from those tapes?

Bruce Schultz
http://www.hollywooddit.com

[Bruce Schultz]

Also, scanning your website’s FAQ I don’t see any mention of spanning LTO tapes or incremental backup.

If I have a Raid 5 filled with footage that is larger than my LTO tape capacity, can I automatically span and incrementally backup during the filming day? It seems I will have to compute the exact amount of data to copy to a tape each time manually. Not so?

Bruce Schultz
http://www.hollywooddit.com

[Tim Jones]

Yes, the recipient of the tapes will need BRU, just like they would need any other software (including LTFS since it’s also a user install). But, the BRU demo is all that’s required to restore. In fact, if you’ve been using our 30 demo and the demo period is expired, you can still continue to restore with the expired demo.

As for spanning tapes and incrementals, BRU properly handles both. For incrementals, you do need to create a job definition so that there is something to compare against.

If you get into a situation with BRU that’s beyond simple manual perusal, open a ticket on our support site and the team will be happy to assist (I don’t want to turn the Cow into a BRU support forum 🙂 ).

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Bruce Schultz]

Thanks again Tim. That makes things much clearer. One of the tools I would like to have going as an on-set DIT is the automatic incremental backup of footage as it is offloaded from the camera cards to a Raid 5 drive and then from the Raid 5 to LTO. If I can set this to happen automatically and have it warn me when it’s time to switch out a full tape to continue the copy process – that would all work for me. This is what I meant by “span” and “increment”.

Of course the footage is being updated with new offloads throughout the day, so do the newer offloads need to be in a new folder to be watched, or does BRU detect uncopied files and add them to the auto increment?

I don’t think you are being a shill for the software, merely explaining to a novice the details of it’s capabilities.

Oh, and only having to use the demo version for a restore or recovery is sweet!

Bruce Schultz
http://www.hollywooddit.com

[Tim Jones]

By creating a job defined to monitor a “watch Folder”, you can create a job that runs incrementals on a scheduled basis. One of our customers run their incremental job 3x a day – 10AM, 2PM and 7PM – and has one of their interns responsible for ingesting cards and setting a flag when something comes in. This way, if nothing comes in during a 5 hour period, the schedule skips that run. They also do appended backups of these incremental operations to make the most of their tapes.

Once you get a feel for how BRU works (caution, ‘thar be command line demons lurking…’ and you WILL get some on you), you can do so much more than what is set up by default in the BRU PE and BRU Server GUIs.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!