Mathieu Xavier
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I’ll add that I bought TTT to help me restore tapes from other Post facilities. Everything was written to the tape with Tar and TTT worked with the help of some script I wrote to dredge the tape for all tar files.
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Bill,
I did a test with Archiware P5 and the link files get backed up. I tested a restore and all the files restored properly including the alias files which relinked back to the original material.
I’d file a bug with Atempo and maybe they can fix it if it really skips backing up those link files.
I think we need a 3rd party app, if Apple can’t build the feature into FCP X, that collects all used files and enables us to archive properly. That is, if you’re not already collecting all material used into each event which does allow you to back up / archive all the material used in that project.
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William,
I don’t think any software is going to follow all aliases or symbolic links to the original material to backup or archive it for you.
Either you have a separate job to copy an original data source folder or you copy footage into events when you create them initially.
Archiware has some instructions for doing this with P5 on their site:
https://www.archiware.com/archive-with-final-cut-pro-x.307.1.html
Should be applicable for your situation with FCP X. Backing up the entire XSAN is good for continuous data protection, but the creating digital archives of projects is tricky part (archiving just relevant bits to one specific project). Where’s the “media manage / archive all used media” button? Coming soon?
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Use hditutil in Terminal to make a disk image of your project folder. It will be the same size. Then use hdiutil to segment it into tiny 100M pieces to make uploading and downloading easier. It will take a long time, depending on your internet connection. The re-assemble double-click on the first piece and the DMG will be re-assembled!
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It might just be me, but it pays to be paranoid. I’ve lived through SAN and RAID failures. Given a choice I like to keep copies of 2nd tier SAN, NAS, RAID, ZFS pool, or somewhere AND on tape. If disaster recovery is explicitly important than a 2nd tape copy off site. And yes, test those tape backups/archives with restores.
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Hi
As Tim Jones said Bru can copy your 20TB backup set seamlessly to multiple tapes. And so can Archiware P4 (soon to be P5).
All reasonable backup software can accomplish this task.
If you have video files maybe you want to use Archiware Archive to make video proxies. But if not then don’t worry about and choose any reasonable backup software.
And that’s the point. LTFS does not behave like reasonable backup software. The pro is that it acts like a regular filesystem, no tape backup software needed. That’s a plus. The con is that backup jobs do not span tapes without your manual intervention. Maybe that’s not so back for backup sets less than 2.5TB, but more than that then you need reasonable backup software to do the job. So you can save your time for something else.
For that matter you could buy Tolis Tape Tools and backup with Tar files from your Mac. That works too. Cheapest solution. Or use Linux and save on Tape Tools.
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Lots of free Open Source software solutions. All it costs is your time. 🙂
Tactic:
https://community.southpawtech.com/get-started
ResourceSpace
https://bitnami.com/stack/resourcespace
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One possible way to do this is with Archiware Archive. It lets you move your video to LTO tapes and/or near-line disk raid storage while keeping a nice database of video proxy files that you can view from a web browser.
For all my video clients they find this makes it way easier to find what they want to restore when they need and then copy back changes into the incremental archive.
Check out André Aulich’s description of using Archiware to set up a mini-MAM for video archives:
https://moosystems.com/use-presstore-archive-to-automatically-move-data-to-tape/Archiware’s site is here:
https://www.archiware.com/p4-archive.10.1.htmlCheers,
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Micah,
There are lots of ways to tackle this issue, here are a couple I’ve seen in production (at various studios):
1) FileMaker + Blu-Ray
Each project gets an entry in a FileMaker Db and a Blu-Ray disc is burned of raw shooting materials. Also a final project Blu-Ray is burned at the end of the project.
(This works but doesn’t back up current projects after ingest, or work in progress).
2) Backups + Spread sheet
Backup all data to tape, and archive final projects to tape, keep track in a spreadsheet.
(Not my fav method, but it works for some places).
3) Backups + Archives using PresSTORE
Use Archiware PresSTORE Backup to run continuous backups to tape or to disk. For work in progress. And use PresSTORE Archive to archive finished projects and raw shooting materials to tape. I like the Archive module of PresSTORE because it keeps a local database of the Archives that is searchable. The best thing is that it makes proxy video thumbnails that you can actually see what it is before restoring. Also you can add a few metadata fields to the archive like producer, client or whatever is most useful.
4) Use a DAM/MAM solution to keep track of projects and archives
This used to work more or less with Final Cut Server since it supported Archive devices that would move the primary representation off to a cheaper disk or tape, but keep the video thumbnails in the database.
You can do this with Cantemo Portal or with Axle Video. And other solutions as well.
Cheers,
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