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2. Archiving and Restoring Clips
2.1. Archive and Restore Bin Hierarchy
When installing IP2Archive, an Archive and Restore bin hierarchy has to be created in the
Database Explorer of IPDirector. See See section "Creating an Archive and Restore Bin
Hierarchy" on page 23 for more information.
This bin hierarchy allows you to easily archive clips to LTO, (partially) restore clips to the
nearline storage and to search for archived clips. It also allows you to keep track of the
archive and restore progress and status of each clip.
In the example below 6 bins have been created for the archive process and 5 for the
restore process. An additional bin has been created for generating subclips (see below).
The IP2Archive Communicator will scan these bins, pick up the archive and restore
requests and insert them in the IP2Archive database.
2.2. Archiving Clips
2.2.1. Before Archiving
Before archiving a clip, always verify if the clip is not already archived. If you try to archive
a clip that is already archived, the clip will be moved to the Archive Rejected bin.
Also check if the clip has a high-resolution and low-resolution video file on the nearline
storage. If not, ask IPDirector to send the clip to the nearline storage. XTAccess will then
create a high-resolution and a low-resolution file.
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