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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