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An MTMP Case Study

Active Archiving for Motion Pictures

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A service provider for motion picture post production and distribution services required a new digital media storage system to manage and service a major film library.

Requirements…

  • Fast ingest (up to and beyond 20 TB a day)
  • Fast access to files (no longer than several minutes)
  • Long term durable protection (up to 30 years)
  • Open technology (non-proprietary, no locking of data assets by the storage system vendor)
  • Use of an open standards LTO tape format so files can be distributed on tape to the provider’s customers and easily read and copied
  • Lower total cost of ownership (than an all disk based system)
  • Tapes can be removed from the automated tape library and shelved while continually being identified by the system
  • Users-friendly operations (IT skills not required for any operational tasks including accessing archived and backed up files)
  • A future enhancement could provide a disaster recovery solution with mirrored copies to multiple remote locations

MTMP’s Solution…

The solution that MTMP proposed was an appliance that provided NAS functionality by storing and managing files on a disk cache and on an automated LTFS/LTO tape library. Files were ingested to the disk cache and automatically copied to one or two LTO tapes. After ingest, two or three copies of a file may exist (one on the cache and one or two on separate tapes). A policy can be set to reduce the size of the file on the cache to a stub to save disk space for future use. The appliance provided the typical user-friendly features that network attached storage systems are famous for and provided a persistent index view of and access to all the files in the system (regardless of age or where they resided, disk, tape-in-library or tape-on-shelf).

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  • Active and Deep Archives
  • Camera Master File Storage
  • Editorial Storage Offload/Restore
  • Tapeless Workflow Storage
  • Work-in-Process Storage
  • Cross-Industry Storage

Case Studies

  • The Ultimate Best Practices Disaster Recovery (DR) Solution…
  • A Cost-Effective Option to Supplement High-Speed Shared Storage Systems
  • A ‘Best Practices’ Solution for Storing Original Camera Master (OCM) files…
  • Active Archiving for Motion Pictures

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  • Calendar
  • What is LTFS?
  • White Papers

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