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Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- Getting Started with the Avid Interplay Administrator
- Database Settings
- Creating an Interplay Database
- Avid Interplay Databases, Folders, and Files
- Limits on the Number of Assets and Objects in the Interplay Database
- Creating and Restoring Database Backups
- Performing a Consistency Check
- Viewing Database Information
- Locking and Unlocking Databases
- Managing Databases: Deactivating, Activating, and Migrating
- Moving a Database to Another Server (Non-Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database and Users to Another Server (Non-Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database to Another Server (Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database and Users to Another Server (Clustered Systems)
- Moving a Database Under Low Disk Space Conditions
- Renaming a Database
- Server Settings
- User Management
- Understanding the Central Configuration Server
- Adding Users to a Central Configuration Server
- Setting User Authentication Providers and Importing Users
- Managing Users, User Groups, and User Rights
- Understanding Default User Groups, Users, and Roles
- Adding User Groups
- Adding Users Manually
- Viewing and Setting Attributes
- Understanding Standard Roles and Default Rights
- Viewing and Changing Roles
- Viewing and Setting Authentication Providers for Individual Users
- Deleting Users and User Groups
- Removing Users from User Groups
- Managing Database Roles
- Guidelines for User Management
- Site Settings
- Defining Property Layouts
- Setting the Resolutions Available for Display
- Creating Custom Properties
- Configuring Remote Workgroups
- Configuring Categories
- Setting Server Hostnames and the Workgroup Name
- Interplay Media Services View
- Interplay Transfer Status View
- Interplay Transfer Settings View
- Workgroup Transfer Presets View
- Specifying Remote Servers for Asset Tracking
- Specifying Archive Settings
- Setting the Ownership for New Database Folders
- Setting Options for Deletion
- Viewing and Setting the Metadata Override Status
- Application Settings
- Application Database Settings View
- Setting Options in the Editing Settings Tab
- Setting Audio Mixing Defaults for Access and Assist
- Sending a Source to Playback in Interplay Assist
- Setting the Shotlist Start Timecode for Interplay Access and Interplay Assist
- Setting an Automatic Timeout for Interplay Assist and Avid Instinct
- Configuring the Frame Locators Display
- Setting Instinct/Assist User Options
- Pro Tools Plug-Ins Settings
- Application Database Settings View
- Avid Interplay Services
- Troubleshooting
- Configuring Interplay for a Split Database
- Installed Components and Services
- Interplay Engine Configuration Files
- Valid and Invalid Characters in Avid Interplay
- System Metadata Properties
- Server Error Codes
- Consistency Check Codes
- Index
2 Database Settings
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Restoring Archived Log Files
In Interplay version 1.6 and later, the Interplay Engine compresses and archives log files
older than 7 days. The log compression process runs during project backup. (This process
runs at most once per day, even if multiple backups are scheduled on the same day.) Archive
files (with the extensions .bar and .bin) are stored in the same directory as the log files for 30
days and then are automatically deleted. You can extract the compressed log files from an
archive by using the BackupArchive tool described in “Using the BackupArchive Tool to
Restore Files” on page 57.
Performing a Consistency Check
The database Consistency Check compares the version of the database or databases on the
master directory with the current database file. The Perform Consistency Check view
provides a useful tool for checking if all references are correct, seeing if all necessary files
are on the disk, and checking other aspects of the database.
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The Consistency Check is for support purposes. You should perform this check only if
requested by Avid Technical Support.
Viewing Database Information
Use the Database Information view to display information about an Interplay database,
including information about the size of the database and the connected users.
The Database Object Statistics section lists total objects for the entire Interplay database, as
well as totals for the most common object types. You can use this data to monitor the size of
the Interplay database. Currently the Interplay database supports up to 5 million objects (see
“Limits on the Number of Assets and Objects in the Interplay Database” on page 36). Make
sure that you have an effective deletion workflow in place to keep the total number of objects
from growing too fast.
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Database Object Statistics are displayed only for servers that are running Interplay Engine
version 1.6 or later.
To view the information about a database:
1. In the Database section of the Interplay Administrator window, click the Database
Information icon.
The Database Information view opens.