New free tool for Mac OS X and Amazon S3 integration available from Archiware Tech Labs

Archive / Backup / Synchronize vendor Archiware hast released a free, FUSE based tool to mount your Amazon S3 storage in your Mac’s file system.

The tool is called WingFS and can be found on the brand new Archiware Technical Blog.

Export data and metadata from Final Cut Server

If you’ve been using Final Cut Server to manage your media assets, you will sooner or later look for a new DAM/MAM system, which can replace your existing solution.

Whatever new asset management system you are going to use, you surely want to migrate your existing data and metadata from FCSvr to the new system.

Extended Mac Client Management Services

More and more enterprises want to integrate Mac clients into existing Windows or UNIX/Linux environments without the need to buy, set up and maintain additional Mac servers.

I agree with these companies that it can be very efficient to extend an existing infrastructure for Mac client management, as this allows you to use your support teams for this new task without big changes in organization, operation and infrastructure.

Use Xsan 2.2.x’s Filesystem Events and Archiware PresSTORE 4.x to Protect Large Volumes

If you work with a storage system larger than 10TB and let’s say houndred thousands or more files stored on it, saving these data as a backup or mirror can be quite challenging. I know many systems, which solely rely … Continue reading

Final Cut Server: How to import metadata from external MAMs

Lately I’ve seen more and more people connecting their Final Cut Server systems to other MAMs, and one of the main questions in these “multiple MAMs” environments is how to exchange metadata in between the different systems. If you want … Continue reading

Connecting Final Cut Server To Archiware PresSTORE – new tool and documentation !

Please notice: There’s an extended version available at: http://www.andre-aulich.de/en/perm/extended-fiprecon-version-available-for-free. And it’s still free!” Many of us would like to use Final Cut Server (FCSvr) as an archive solution to write high res media files to tape (or disks). By default, … Continue reading