Monthly Archives: July 2010

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 on RAID level 5 as the only security feature, which is somehow frightening if you consider the value of your data.

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 to copy asset metadata from an external MAM into Final Cut Server, this basically includes the following steps: