Re: Cache-A LTO-4 for P2 Archiving

Jeremy,

I have the Cache-A appliance hooked up and mounted as a share drive. I use Panasonic's P2 CMS to offload P2 Cards to my RAID and other archive drives. I tried to use the same method to offload to the VTAPE on the Cache-A. Everything seemed to be going great until it came time to verify the data. At the end of the export I got the summary dialog box and instead of having 0 errors it told me all files failed to copy. However, when I poked around on the VTAPE I saw that the entire P2 card contents seemed to be in tact AND the assets even played back fine from the appliance.

Any thoughts as to why the verify/compare failed? What are you using to offload P2 cards? I've read and heard about Shot Put but I use the free CMS from Panasonic b/c it's worked great until now. Not sure if it's the software or appliance not communicating.

BTW, I learned you can, in fact, offload directly to the Cache-A via a P2 device. Just plug in to a USB jack on the appliance and it will show up in the File Manager "Source Directory" after a refresh. You have to have a computer connected to control the appliance but it's suppose to be faster then doing what I'm trying to do by plugging into the desktop and exporting via the Gb network. I just don't see a way to effectively manage the data and workflow directly from the Cache-A web based control panel at this point. Maybe I'm missing something?

I would appreciate any input!

Thanks!

~Mike~

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