PUMA Portable Universal Media Archive User Manual V 2.6 Including PUMABD December 2011 Cypher Technology Ltd Leatherhead, UK cyphertechnology.
1 Table of Contents 1 Table of Contents ....................................................................................................2 2 Description ..............................................................................................................4 3 Quick Start Guide ....................................................................................................6 3.1 Turning On..........................................................................................................
4.5.3 ImageMaker – Combining Multiple Full Image Master Disks .....................15 4.5.4 Restore the Image Back to a Card.............................................................16 5 Technical Background...........................................................................................16 5.1 Master Copy (bit for bit copy)............................................................................16 5.1.1 Full Image Master .......................................................................
2 Description PUMA is a rugged and evidentially secure system for archiving USB and flash card data to CDROM, DVD or BD(1) media. Its automated backup procedure make it simple to use. It is aimed primarily at backing up flash based audio and video recorders and digital cameras and includes a RAW to JPEG image converter. PUMA will back up any type of file data and can be used to archive USB pen drives and other USB disk drives. The main features are as follows: • Simple operation.
Fig 1. Front Panel Fig 2. Rear Panel Cypher Technology Ltd V2.
3 3.1 Quick Start Guide Turning On 1. Connect the supplied 12V 5A power supply (PSU) lead to rear panel power inlet and screw up the connector. Connect the PSU to a mains supply using the supplied cable. 2. Remove any flash card. 3. Switch on the Power Switch on the rear panel (switch up). The display panel will light up and show “Press I/O”. The green front panel LED will flash. 4. Press the I/O (On/Off) switch below the green flashing LED. “On..
4 4.1 Detailed Operation Setting up and Powering PUMA 1. Connect the supplied 12V 5A power supply (PSU) lead to rear panel power inlet and screw up the connector. Connect the PSU to a mains supply using the supplied cable. Using in a vehicle. PUMA requires a regulated 12V power supply. If PUMA is to be used in a vehicle, please use the 12V stabiliser available from your supplier or Cypher Technology Ltd. 2. Remove any flash card. 3. Switch on the Power Switch on the rear panel (switch up).
the sequence: Make Master, Verify Master, Make Working Copy, and then Wipe and format the flash card. 1. Place the flash card in the appropriate slot. If a USB drive is to be archived, plug this into either of the USB slots in the rear panel or the slot in the front panel (M1.3 only). An extension lead may be required for bulky USB flash drives 2. Place a blank CD-R or DVD +/- R or BD-R(1) in the drive. The Master is generated first. The size of the flash card is shown on the display when it is inserted.
Possible operations are: Menu Item Description 1 Working File Copy Creates Working Copy disk from flash 2 Make Video DVD Authors standard DVD from MPEG-2 files 3 Encrypted Copy Creates password protected copy 4 Make Master Copy Creates Master Copy 5 Make HD Master Makes a Master of a USB hard drive 6 Verify Master Verifies card against Master Copy 7 Restore Master Creates clone flash card from Master Copy 8 Wipe Card Overwrites flash card with “0”s and formats card 9 Checksum Card
4.4.4 Make Encrypted Copy This is an optional feature. It is used to make an AES 256 encrypted and password protected copy of the files on the flash card. PUMA will automatically generate a pseudo-random high security 14 character password. It is highly recommended that this be used for security reasons. Alternatively a password may be entered using the cursor keys. The [<],[>] keys select the character and the [up],[down] keys select the character.
4.4.8 Verify Master Copy against Flash Card This function will check that the contents of the inserted Master Disk are identical to the inserted flash card. Where a multi-disk set has been produced, any numbered disk may be checked individually. 4.4.9 Verify Multi-Disk Master Set To verify a Master disk set (i.e. all the disks in a multi-disk Master), the procedure is different for a Full and Compact Master Full Master: Insert Disk #1 first, then 2, 3, 4 etc.
4.4.14 Format Flash card This function first overwrites the Master Boot Record of the card with binary “0”s thereby removing any boot sector viruses. It then re-partitions the card with a single primary partition of the maximum size and then formats this with a FAT32 file system. Note this function does not wipe the data area of the card. The Wipe card function must be used if this is required. See Section 4.4.12. When complete “Formatted” is displayed. 4.4.
1. Boot up PUMA. 2. Press the {Menu} soft key to enter the menu. 3. Press the [Down Arrow] key until “Install Software” appears. Either: Press the [Disk] button to eject tray. Place an upgrade disk on the tray and press [Disk] button once more to load the disk. The disk will take a few seconds to be recognised. Please wait. Or: Plug in a USB drive to the rear panel of the PUMA.
4.5 4.5.1 How is the Master Copy used? PUMA Master – The ultimate evidential exhibit Copying Master digital evidence files from a flash card to a CD or DVD by “dragging and dropping” on a PC will leave behind deleted files and other meta data. Simple card copiers only copy the undeleted, un-hidden files. Both these practises leave the Master exhibit open to costly legal challenge. The PUMA Master contains all the data from the flash card on a write-once optical disk.
The viewer programs allow the user to open the flash.img file as if they were opening a disk in Windows explorer. Individual directories can be viewed and opened and their files accessed or copied. 4.5.3 ImageMaker – Combining Multiple Full Image Master Disks If the Full Image Master is split across several disks, the ImageMaker utility, on Master Disk #1 must be run to combine the images on the different Master Disks into one file. To run ImageMaker, place Master Disk #1 in the PC drive.
Fig 6. ImageMaker final screen The Checksum shown at the end should be the same as the checksum noted down during the making of the Master. This single .img file can be accessed by WinImage in the normal way. 4.5.4 Restore the Image Back to a Card Secondly, the disk image can be copied back to a flash card of equal or greater size than the flash.img file (and therefore the original flash card).
5.1.1 Full Image Master “Full Image”. This is the format originally used within PUMA. The Full Image Master contains a single file called “flash.img” which is a bit for bit copy of the whole of the flash card. It is the same size (in Kbytes) as the flash card. The flash.img file has its time created, modified and accessed values set to the time of the start of the transfer. This time is taken from the system time as displayed on the front panel of the machine at start-up.
images. Alternatively, the Master may be restored back to a storage device (flash card or USB drive) which is the same size or bigger than the original card. Standard data recovery techniques can then be used on this restored drive as they would on the original card. 5.1.4 Why archive the file system? The file system used on removable flash media is the FAT file system. A file is a digital container for digital data. As an example, one digital still image is normally stored in one file.
5.1.9 Media history and fragmentation When a file is created on a blank piece of media, the storage space is generally allocated from the beginning of the data area as continuous or contiguous space. Once several files have been created and then a few have been deleted “holes” appear on the file data area where the old file data resided.
are made within the file or on the card. The Master and the card should always have the same checksum. Where multiple disks are produced, the modulo 32 bit sum of the checksums of the individual disks are equal to checksum of the whole card. Note: this is not true for Compact Master disks pre V 2.6.34. The chance of two flash cards, with different image data, having the same checksum is less than 1 in 4,000,000,000.
5.7.2 Master Verify This involves re-reading the flash card and comparing the data with the disk image. This takes about 4 minutes for a 4 Gbyte card. 5.7.3 Working Copy Creation This involves only copying the files themselves and the time taken will depend on the amount of data contained in the files. A large RAW file of say 16 Mbytes would take around 1 second to transfer.
6 6.1 Technical Support System re-starting in the event of failure Every effort has been made to allow PUMA cope gracefully with various fault conditions. It is possible, however, that the system will temporally lock-out. If the system does not respond during use (please wait for 3 minutes during a transfer), then the system should be powered down by switching off at the rear panel. Remove the flash card and re-start the system. The disk can only be ejected once the system is ready for use.
7 Specifications Power 12 +- 0.4V dc 5A (max.) 1.5 A Idle. Polarity Centre pin +ve Supplied PSU 100-240Vac 1.5A 47-63 Hz Card Types Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Microdrive, MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, SmartMedia Card, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, CompactFlash Card, USB memory stick Card Size Any Size Disk Types PUMA BD only : BD-R 25GB, BD-R DL 50GB PUMA BD and standard PUMA: DVD +/-R 4.7 GB DVD +/- R DL 8.
9 Appendix 9.1 Supported MPEG-2 Formats for Conversion to DVD PAL 25 FPS NTSC 29.97 FPS 720 x 576 720 x 480 704 x 576 704 x 480 352 x 576 352 x 480 9.2 RAW Conversion - Supported Camera Types The system includes a RAW file converter for generating JPEGs for the Working Copy. This is the current list of supported cameras and file formats for the converter. Note all camera types are supported for file transfer, not just those below.
• Canon EOS D60 • Contax N Digital • Canon EOS 5D • Creative PC-CAM 600 • Canon EOS 10D • Epson R-D1 • Canon EOS 20D • Foculus 531C • Canon EOS 30D • Fuji FinePix E550 • Canon EOS 40D • Fuji FinePix E900 • Canon EOS 50D • Fuji FinePix F700 • Canon EOS 300D • Fuji FinePix F710 • Canon EOS 350D • Fuji FinePix F800 • Canon EOS 400D • Fuji FinePix F810 • Canon EOS 450D • Fuji FinePix S2Pro • Canon EOS 1000D • Fuji FinePix S3Pro • Canon EOS D2000C • Fuji FinePix
• Kodak DCS315C • Leaf Aptus 65 • Kodak DCS330C • Leaf Aptus 75 • Kodak DCS420 • Leaf Aptus 75S • Kodak DCS460 • Leaf Cantare • Kodak DCS460A • Leaf CatchLight • Kodak DCS520C • Leaf CMost • Kodak DCS560C • Leaf DCB2 • Kodak DCS620C • Leaf Valeo 6 • Kodak DCS620X • Leaf Valeo 11 • Kodak DCS660C • Leaf Valeo 17 • Kodak DCS660M • Leaf Valeo 22 • Kodak DCS720X • Leaf Volare • Kodak DCS760C • Leica Digilux 2 • Kodak DCS760M • Leica Digilux 3 • Kodak EOSDC
• Nikon D1 • Nikon E5700 • Nikon D1H • Nikon E8400 • Nikon D1X • Nikon E8700 • Nikon D2H • Nikon E8800 • Nikon D2Hs • Nikon Coolpix P6000 • Nikon D2X • Nikon Coolpix S6 • Nikon D2Xs • Nokia N95 • Nikon D3 • Olympus C3030Z • Nikon D40 • Olympus C5050Z • Nikon D40X • Olympus C5060WZ • Nikon D50 • Olympus C7070WZ • Nikon D60 • Olympus C70Z,C7000Z • Nikon D70 • Olympus C740UZ • Nikon D70s • Olympus C770UZ • Nikon D80 • Olympus C8080WZ • Nikon D90 •
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