Re: Restoring an archive

[Chris Smith <chris(at)sugarfilmproduction.com>]

Noted.  Well it's been a long and arduous trip down archive lane, but with your help I understand the process.

However when it comes to purging and deleting I would prefer Avid write their manuals and dialog boxes to be clear to the point of redundancy.  With anything else you can experiment to see what the %&$(at) the manual was implying, but when it comes to permanently losing days of work, I could use a bit more detailed info from the docs.  IMHO.

Thanks again all for the help.  I'll be touring the country now teaching DS archiving if anyone would like to attend ;)

Chris Smith

Partner/Film Director

Sugar Film Production

3699 McKinney #222

Dallas 75204

214.655.2662

http://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

On Dec 22, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Russ Grycza wrote:

Chris - DON'T DELETE ANYTHING! Murf is gone for the holidays and won't be able to help you get it back to normal (don't ask - it's a long story).

 

Each Archive program saves something different from the project, so both archive files are needed to restore the project. The archive and restore you get under Project Manager only saves all the information about the sequences, clips, subclips, etc. - anything found inside the project folder - and you can have it save the audio media and caches, too. (Of course you can have it archive the video media to tape as well, but you're not interested in this at this point.) The stand-alone archive utility you downloaded just saves the video media associated with the project. Put the clip and sequence information back together with the media and voila, you have your project back!

 

Russ

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Chris Smith

To: DS(at)Softimage.COM

Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:42 PM

Subject: Re: Restoring an archive

Well i'm mentally challenged it seems.  I did the logical thing up back tracing everystep and went to the project manager and did a restore there as well and the project fully exists again.

So if the process is what I think it is, I could delete the archive in the DS Archives folder If I wanted to.  Use the Archive program which restores the archive and places the media on the drives where they need to be then I would have a full restore from that one folder created by the Archive utility?

Chris Smith

Partner/Film Director

Sugar Film Production

3699 McKinney #222

Dallas 75204

214.655.2662

http://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

On Dec 22, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Tom Phillips wrote:

That sentience at the top of the purge window should really read like the following:

“Display associated media TO BE PURGED (for, except for)”

This would really help alleviate a lot of confusion. I always say it to myself when purging.

This was taught to me way back when in DS 101 by Eddie Hales.

See, I can learn new things. Thanks for that one Eddie.

Tom

tom phillips

sr. editor, dir. of tech

kinetic post, inc.

248.799.0099 ph

248.799.0088 fx

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From: Chris Smith [mailto:chris(at)sugarfilmproduction.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 2:16 PM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Restoring an archive

Sorry to bug, but this is important and I want to make sure I'm clear before doing any purging:

I selected the 3 sequences that are final.  I went to Purge media.  I selected 'except for'.  I checked all media types.  I checked 'other projects' (although there are none).  I checked handles and made it '150'.  'Optimize for' options are greyed out.

I refreshed the purge list and it came up with quite a list.

If I say 'Purge'  will this erase everything except the bits of the video and audio files used in those selected sequences (while retaining the handle frames?).

My final goal I want is to get all the media completely stripped out except what is used in the sequences (keeping a handle length) so when I eventually use the archive utility, the project is as lean on media as it can be.

Thank you to all who are helping, this means a lot.

Chris Smith

Partner/Film Director

Sugar Film Production

3699 McKinney #222

Dallas 75204

214.655.2662

http://www.sugarfilmproduction.com

On Dec 22, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Sylvain Labrosse wrote:

What others have not mentioned is to also turn off the Read only flag on

the unzipped archive and all content (if it is ON).  This can prevent

the proper restore of an archive into a valid project. 

Sylvain Labrosse

Avid DS Support

Escalation team

http://www.softimage.com/avidds 

Check The Learning Collection 

-----Original Message-----

From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf

Of Mike Doyle

Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:41 PM

To: DS(at)Softimage.COM

Subject: Restoring an archive

Hi all...

This may have already been answered...but... we are having a restore

problem with a lot of our recent archives. Vers 7.6 Nitris.  The

projeects in question have been archived in the usual fashion, zipped

and stored on disc.  Now, having upzipped the archive, and trying to

restore it, DS says it is not a valid archive.  DS will restore an

archived that has not yest been zipped.  But if we zip it, then unzip it

, it becomes invalid. Anybody else see this? Is there a solution, or are

theser zipped archives just somuch trash?

Thanks in advance...

Mike Doyle

DS Editor

HD Studios

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