I’ve used LTO/LTFS in production from staged volumes which were then written to LTFS formatted tapes. It’s particularly well suited to the ‘completed’ work model found in production and media companies all around the world.

We created our own setup from a Linux server and SAS adapter connected to an HP LTO5 device. It works very well.

For solutions that have more complete front-ends, Cache-A are doing some interesting work in this area as well.

Being a small company we don’t have the luxury of having infinite file storage space. We are a graphic design studio that deals with incredibly large Hi-Res files that have to be kept active for at least 2 years. We’ve doubled our storage space in the past year due to the volume of work.

So when it comes time to start archiving files form the server; there’s always that uncertainty of deleting the files once they have been archived. Files that are archived have to be kept for at least 10 years, because we have actually gone back that far to retrieve a job for revisions.

I haven’t thoroughly read about P4′s Archive feature, but I’m interested to know more on how it can benefit our workflow.

Best regards,
Ken S.

Is this package already available?

Thank you very much!

using LFTS: I’ve backed up roughly 12TB of dpx images sequences to LTO-5. Each
sequence broken into 1HR REELS. Now its time to restore and I’m stuck with reads from the LTO at 1MB/sec. I’m attributing this to concurrent writes. Without knowing any better FileZilla was used to transfer all my dpx sequences and no doubt multiple writes were executed during the orig backup.

Are there any workarounds to recover this data at reasonable read speeds

any advise would be appreciated.

thanks
J

Is the following hybrid approach possible? I don’t require that my LTO Archive be transient. I was thinking that I could use LTFS to create a mounted volume, with a directory that is representative of my PresStore Archive, and instead of storing source files, proxy or stub files would be stored on the LTFS volume. My fuzzy logic works like this. I commit a single file or batch of files to archive via PresStore. I use PresStore to commit a batch of proxy/stub files to the LTFS volume, thus limiting its use to only maintaining a deep archive directory.

I have moved my Presstore system onto a Mac to accommodate the need to be able to read LTFS tapes. Quantum LTFS only works with OSX 10.6.8 in 32 bit mode because macFuse will only work in 32 bit environments.

I would like to try your “one click” installer and GUI.

Keep up the good work.