Grass Valley Kaleido-X v.7.80 - Manual (Page 128)

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Managing Kaleido-X Systems
Managing Multiple Databases Efficiently
Working online
If you are connected to a multiviewer, and working online in XEdit, you are actually editing
the database that is located inside the multiviewer’s file system. There is one database per
multiviewer. An expansion system, comprising two Kaleido-X (7RU) frames, is also managed
through a single database. A cluster system includes one database for each multiviewer in
the cluster, which are backed up or restored as a single operation. When you have
completed your changes, create a backup of the current system and store it in a secure
location on your PC.
To back up the current Kaleido-X system
1 On the Configure menu, point to Database, to Create backup, and then click All.
2 Browse to the secure location on your PC where you store all your database backups
(e.g., MirandaDatabaseBackups ), and type a name for the new backup, preferably a
name that includes the multiviewer name and the date (e.g., KX_A&B_08_12_02.zip ).
Working offline
When using XEdit offline, you work inside a workspace located on your client PC. You set
the location for this workspace when you first opened XEdit. It is recommended to consider
this workspace as a “sandbox” into which you import the database you wish to work on
during this session, and from which you export the database at the end of the session.
See Importing a Database on page 79, for instructions on how to import the database from
a specific multiviewer into your workspace. Once the import is completed, you can work
locally, in your XEdit workspace. When you have completed your changes, export the
database from the workspace, back to the multiviewer.
Applying a backup database to the multiviewer
To restore a backup database, you must use XEdit in offline mode. A backup database must
first be restored to your local workspace before it can be exported back to the appropriate
multiviewer.
TIP
Once you are satisfied with the location of your local workspace, on the
Configure menu, point to Database, and then select the Do not prompt for
the database path check box, to avoid being prompted every time you
open XEdit.
Online
1 Work in XEdit.
2 Back up database
from multiviewer
to central
repository.
1 Import database from
multiviewer into local
workspace.
2 Work in XEdit.
3 Back up database from
local workspace to
central repository.
4 Export database from
local workspace to
multiviewer .
1 Restore backup from central
repository into local workspace.
2 Work in XEdit, if needed...
...and then back up database
from local workspace to central
repository.
3 Export database from local
workspace to multiviewer .
Offline System restore from backup (offline)