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, FCSvr can write archives onto various file systems, but it can’t directly access tape drives.

Now download my little middleware tool fiprecon to connect

If you’d like a copy of the Final Cut Server presentation I will give in London at the VideoVisions event in London next week, here it is.

Besides other topics the presentation deals with

Rough Cut Editing
FCSvr CLI
XML and data exchange with other MAMs
Automatic fetching of news feeds incl. XML metadata
Working

Since 2006 my partner ConSol* and I offer 24/7 remote management services for Apple server and storage environments.

One of the big challenges is to discover issues before they become problems.

For this we use Nagios, an open source monitoring solution, which monitors our customers’ systems and informs us immediately if

If you use Mac OS X Server as a web server, you can use the Open Source software Webalizer to regularly analyze your Apache log files and to create a graphical overview of your audience’s web access.

After installing the Webalizer by copying the binary file webalizer to /usr/bin and

If you work with a Mac OS X Server 10.4.x AFP server and Tiger clients, and you set up a shared folder with read-only permissions for your users, Mac OS X will preserve the read-only permissions if you copy files and folders from your file server to your Desktop, no