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Q: Data Corruption and Recovery Planning

I have two questions with regards to data file integrity and recovery as my office tries to plan out our FCS use. These are both hypothetical scenarios and also something people may already have experience with.

 

1) Has anyone experienced data corruption within FCS and the assets stored on the server? Is anyone using checksum to manage and review file integrity and what is the best process to do so? If someone has faced issues with corruption in files, what are your responses to correct the issue?

 

-(we are using a drobo and backing up the catalog, but is this enough protection for the data 5+ years down the line? What are your suggestions for additional protection of files, specifically against file corruption issues, as even the server drives where the files are uploaded to on the drobo can eventually face file corruption?)

 

2) Has anyone used FCS to catalogue assets and decided that they wish to use another program and if so, what was/is your method of exporting the files and metadata to the other program? Was it successful? How time consuming was the process and did you have to redevelop the metadata fields in the other program, or was the mapping process simple? Is an intermediary program useful to transfer files, and what program would that be?

 

- Thank you in advance

Final Cut Server

Posted on May 12, 2011 11:45 AM

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  • by BenB,

    BenB BenB May 22, 2011 11:12 AM in response to afox.
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    May 22, 2011 11:12 AM in response to afox.

    1- None of my dozens of FCSvr clients have ever had data corruption, it's a non-issue for FCSvr.  It is an issue for hard drives and digital files in general, and is not a FCSvr issue.

     

    2- Full asset and catalog backups on a daily basis are nessisary if you're using this for a business.  There are several solutions that work with FCSvr.

     

    3- If you want to move assets to another database, you can export them from the FCSvr client app.  Or just copy the files from the Device they're stored on directly.  FCSvr saves metadata in the catalog database, so only what is stored nativly in each asset's file format will be readable by a diffrent file server solution.  None of my clients have left FCSvr, all are happy with it.