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
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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?
>
> 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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