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

Thanks Rupert

However, for now we are Mac-only and Xendata runs only on Windows. HPs open source LTFS-stuff works quite well once figured out and Bru PE is still waiting to get it's first stress test here. I can report on Bru once we have investigated it.

On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Rupert Watson wrote:

> I would suggest you look at using Xendata for the internal archive and
> in due course they will deliver LTFS for both internal and external.
>
> For now you would need to keep on making explicit extra LTFS tapes to
> send out to clients in place of firewire drives.
>
> 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 18:44
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Media Archiving. LTO?
>
> You are right about this -
>
> as I tried to say: for one decided to deliver LTOs to clients according
> our delivery contract. Delivering the tapeless recorded "camera-tapes"
> in the generic archive format of software xyz would be _a_ delivery but
> can the client read the LTO? Does he have to invest money to buy all the
> different archive software his service providers have chosen to create
> the LTO with? I guess not, that's why for this purpose we use LTFS. Let
> it be two cartridges for a production, filled with all the stuff we
> accumulated.
>
> If the client needs to access any of the data: get the current
> LTFS-implementation and just grab everything from the cartridge down to
> your drive. Done. Platform-independent. No NTFS-/HFS+/ext2-hassle. But
> some LTFS-hassle... ;)
>
> On the other hand, for our own purpose we are evaluating Bru - if it
> turns out to be reliable and sufficient I think this will be the
> software we go for to create our own facility-internal archives.
>
> On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:26 PM, Rupert Watson 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
> > +44 7787 554 801
> > www.root6.com
> >
> > -----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?
> >
> > On Jan 5, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Mike R wrote:
> >
> > > 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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