CatDV Archiving Option

With modern tapeless workflows it is important to be able to archive and back up your media files. The CatDV Archiving Option provides integrated support making it easy to archive files to a Cache-A LTO archive appliance by copying files to the Cache-A vtape folder and keeping track of which tape they have been archived to.

Once files have safely been archived, CatDV provides the option to purge those files from local storage, but low-res proxies and a searchable database of all your log notes and other metadata make it easy to find those files again, and will automatically request that the Cache-A device restores them from tape they are currently offline so you can retrieve them.

Although designed specifically for use with Cache-A ProCache and PrimeCache archive appliances (as tape-based solutions are generally held to be superior for long term archiving), the CatDV Archiving Option can also be used as a general archiving tool to copy files to removable hard drives if necessary.

Additional integration possibilities are provided via the CatDV plug-in SDK.