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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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• Perform a backup of the complete database to offline media. Avid recommends a
complete backup to offline media using a professional backup tool. Archive tools such as
Robocopy or 7-Zip are useful before doing a major system upgrade. They can be used in
place of a professional backup tool. However, performance and stability might suffer.
• If you schedule a regular restart of the engine, set it after the regular backup is created.
If you restart the Interplay Engine, you cannot create a backup until at least one client
connects to the engine. This could be a problem if you schedule a restart and backup at a
time when there is little or not activity, such as the middle of the night.
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The _Database and _PropertyStore folders of each database should be excluded from any
kind of virus checking (virus checking tools might try to lock the database files).
Setting the Number of Database Backups to Keep
The Interplay Engine always keeps the last Complete backup and any later Fast backups. If you
want to keep more than one Complete backup, change the “number of Backups to keep” setting
to be larger than the number of scheduled Fast backups. The default setting is 10.
The number of backups to keep includes Complete and Fast backups. After the Interplay Engine
finishes a Complete backup, it checks the number of backups in the _Backup folder. If the
number of backups to keep is exceeded, the Interplay Engine deletes the extra backups regardless
of backup type (Complete or Fast), starting with the oldest. In this way, there is always at least
one Complete Backup available.
Keeping More Than One Complete Backup
If you want to keep more than one complete backup, you must carefully calculate the number of
backups to keep. For example, if you schedule Complete backups once a week and schedule Fast
backups on the other 6 days, the number of backups to keep must be at least 8 (2 Complete
backups and 6 Fast backups). If the number of backups to keep is less than 8, on the day of the
Complete backup the Interplay Engine will delete the second-to-last Complete backup.
The following illustration shows Complete backups on Sundays and Fast backups on the other
days of the week. On Sunday the 8th, after finishing a Complete backup, the Interplay Engine
checks the number of backups. Because the number of backups to keep is 8, it keeps the
Complete backup performed on Sunday the 1st, the 6 Fast backups, and the last Complete
backup.
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