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
Creating and Restoring Database Backups
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Prior to Interplay Engine v1.2.4, storing backups on shared storage was not recommended
because of the large number of small files included in the backup. However, the backup
mechanism included with Interplay Engine v1.2.4 or later significantly reduces the number of
files created in the _PropertyStore folder, which reduces the amount of storage required.
Alternatively, you can store the backups on an external file server. You need to use a UNC
path when you specify the location. Make sure the Server Execution User has read/write
access to this external file server and the backup folder. See
“Troubleshooting the Server
Execution User Account” on page 229
.
Cluster systems: The default path is
- S:\Workgroup_Databases\AvidWG\_Backup
On cluster systems, Avid recommends that you specify \\?\d:\backup as the path for
Interplay backups. (This syntax, with a question mark, is known as a Long UNC or UNCW
path, and allows for more characters than the 260-character limitation of the short UNC
path.) This path will create backups on the local drive of the active node, rather than the
Infortrend, thus avoiding a single point of failure.
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SR2400 systems were shipped with 73 GB drives, which are too small for regular backups. These
systems should be upgraded to include larger drives.
• Ensure that the backups are working and actually creating backups. To test the backup,
check that the backup subfolders databasename_date_time are being created at the specified
times (according to the backup configuration) and that these subfolders are not empty. Every
backup should create its own subfolder.
For example, on a non-cluster system, your backup folders might be created in the following
location:
- D:\Workgroup_Databases\AvidWG\_Backup
A backup subfolder might be named AvidWG_2007-05-22_03-00.
• Enable a different backup mechanism, such as tape backup, for all folders except the
_Database and _PropertyStore folders (see the table at the beginning of this topic). The
_Master folder of each database is the most important for the tape backup. Do not include
the _Database and _PropertyStore folders of each database in the tape backup.
• After a Complete backup, copy the backup folder to offline media to prevent data loss.
You can do this as a separate step or as part of a backup of the complete database to offline
media (see the next bullet). Use a backup tool (such as Robocopy or 7-Zip) that can handle
long path names and does not use excessive bandwidth, to avoid slowing down activity on
the Interplay Engine. (See
“Using an Archiving Tool for Backup” on page 40).