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

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

In many video production environments it’s a challenge to both backup and archive production data.
This is because video data take a reasonable amount of disk space, and you don’t want to interrupt real-time ingest, playback, and playout by backing up your data.

One of the best ways to backup and/or archive

More and more shops update their Xsan environments to Leopard server and client and Xsan 2.

While this is quite easy, I’ve got some customers who want to replace their existing Apple Xserve RAIDs with 4Gb, redundant-controllers PROMISE RAIDs at the same time.

I choose the following way to do the whole