[Sean Campbell]

Shibbir, I’m currently reusing XDCAM discs by backing them up to LTO-5 tapes as well. Do you have a good workflow for getting them back OFF the LTO-5 when you, for example, need to start onlining/up-res’ing a show later? The workflow I have right now is extremely time-consuming to pull of each disc as needed one at a time. I’m going to experiment with using the LTO-5 to create a sort of virtual meta-ProDisc, if you will, where I pull each of the clips needed for a given show and re-create the XDCAM file structure to online with one mega-disc, if that makes any sense at all.

Thanks for any advice or tips you’ve come across in backing up and restoring ProDiscs from LTO-5.