3.2
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- Getting Started with the Interplay | Administrator
- Database Settings
- Creating an Interplay Database
- Interplay Databases, Folders, and Files
- Creating and Restoring Database Backups
- Types of Interplay Administrator Backups
- Recommendations for Backup Configuration
- Setting the Number of Database Backups to Keep
- Scheduling Automatic Database Backups
- Starting a Backup Manually
- Using an Archiving Tool for Backup
- Restoring an Earlier Version of a Database
- Performing a Partial Restore of an Interplay Production Database
- Creating a Metadata-Only Backup for Customer Support
- 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
- Running Database Maintenance Tools
- Identifying the Root Folder of the Interplay Server 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
- Enabling Interplay Synced Projects
- Setting Options for Deletion
- Viewing and Setting the Metadata Override Status
- Production Engine Bus Connector
- Application Settings
- Application Database Settings View
- Setting Options in the Editing Settings Tab
- Setting Audio Mixing Defaults for Access, Assist, and MediaCentral | UX
- 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
- Configuring the Restrictions Display
- Media Composer | Cloud Settings
- Setting Instinct/Assist User Options
- Pro Tools Plug-Ins Settings
- Application Database Settings View
- Interplay Services
- Troubleshooting
- Reuniting a Split Database
- Installed Components and Services
- Interplay Engine Configuration Files
- Valid and Invalid Characters in Interplay
- System Metadata Properties
- Server Error Codes
- Consistency Check Codes
- Index
Setting Options for Deletion
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The
maxTime
option is especially useful. It allows a media manager to start the deletion process
late in the evening (or generally during low-load or no-load times) and specify a window for the
deletion. You can schedule the deletion before a backup starts or before use of the Interplay
Engine goes up in the morning.d
For example:
C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Interplay Engine\Server>delete_kept_media.exe
user:Administrator psw:avid maxTime:300
This command starts a deletion process that will stop after 5 hours (300 minutes). The tool
displays its progress so that you can see how many assets were deleted. If you want to direct the
output of the tool to a file, append the following to the command:
>> output_file.txt
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This tool is similar to delete_obsolete_rendered_effects.exe, which is described in the Interplay
ReadMe.
To run the Delete Kept Media tool:
1. On the Interplay Engine system (or for a cluster system, on the online node), open a
Windows Command Prompt.
2. Navigate to the location of the tool. For example, type
cd C:\Program Files\Avid\Avid Interplay Engine\Server
3. Type the command line for the tool and press Enter, using the following syntax:
delete_kept_media [user:] [psw:] [maxAssets:] [maxTime:]
If you want to direct the output of the tool to a file, append the following to the command:
>> output_file.txt
For example, to run the program for one hour and print the output in a file named results.txt,
type the following and press Enter:
delete_kept_media user:administrator psw:admin maxTime:60 >>results.txt
If you want to schedule the tool to run at a particular time, use a program such as Windows Task
Scheduler.