This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Media Archiving. LTO?

Monday, January 9, 2012

[Avid-L2] Re: Media Archiving. LTO?

You really should check out "storage DNA".

mark

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Rupert Watson" <rupert@...> wrote:
>
> Why have you got a library and plan to use LTFS ? AFAIK LTFS only works
> by formatting one cartridge at a time, thus rendering a library
> uselsess. I would love to hear that I am wrong.
>
> Rupert Watson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Jo Hermann
> Sent: 09 January 2012 18:20
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Media Archiving. LTO?
>
> We just got our Tandberg Storage Library 40+ but no workflow established
> so far. We are still looking into different possibilities since it has
> to serve two purposes: delivery of source-material (tapeless data
> formerly known as camera-tapes) to co-producers and local backup for own
> productions.
>
> So basically we need the Library to spit out single tapes or a bunch of
> them for a project that has to readable by the recipient. Currently we
> are going the LTFS-road with this one.
> For our internal needs we are looking into Bru.
>
> However: the biggest draw-back on any archive software is the
> reliability in conjunction with the question: can we still read the data
> in decades from now?
>
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>
> On Jan 5, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Mike R wrote:
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> > Are facilities happy with their LTO workflows? I have been using a
> hard drive archiving plan, but feel like a longer term solution needs to
> be put into place. I was looking at the Cache-A archiving appliance, any
> experience with it?
> > TIA
> > -Mike
> >
> >
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