Destinations and Reports
Create single or multiple copy jobs complete with reports
Add a destination
Mounted drives and volumes will be shown in the Destination panel.
Here a drive and an LTO tape are selected to make two copies in parallel. Click Add COPY #1,2
Or Choose Other... if the destination required is not shown in the table. This also allows selection of a destination folder inside a drive.
Or drag a destination folder from the Finder into the Destination table.
Destinations paths
To change the destination paths click the Edit Paths... button in the main panel, then click the buttton again to open the Source Browser.
Or open the Source Browser and then click the Destination tab.
When copying to each destination, folders can be automatically added to each file path.
The extra folders are defined by tokens that are shown in the Tokens box.
Select a file in the table and the SOURCE path is shown along with a preview of the COPY path.
So it is possible to see exactly where every file will be located when it is written to the destination drive or tape.
The source folder or folders dropped into the job table is called the base folder.
The default is to include the base folder.
If the source is a drive or card then the volume name will not appear as the base. Use the volume token instead.
To reset the Tokens box click the Reset button.
In this example the tokens will add the project name, a datastamp followed by the text Camera_Media and then the base folder name.
A different date can be chosen using the calendar in the destinations panel.
The folders added by the tokens are always followed by all the original folder structure inside the job folder.
Click the button to add a token to the path, there are extra tokens available, to use them type the token name into the token path area.
The folders above the job folder are called the parent, grandparent and greatgrandparent folders.
For timestamp folders use the Date, Year, Month, Day and Time buttons or hours, minutes and seconds. Years yyyy or yy. Months mm. Date dd.
There is more information about folder structure for studio delivery here.
Destinations reports and email
YoYotta creates reports when a copy job completes. You can select ALE for Avid, CSV for use with a spreadsheet, MD5 which has all the file checksums, MHL which is an XML formatted report and a PDF with full metadata.
The reports can be stored on a local drive and also saved to the destination.
In this example MD5, MHL and PDF reports will be saved to the desktop.
Date and time stamped reports will also be generated locally on a volume called SOURCE.
This setup can be stored as a preset for easy reuse. See below for details about Presets.
Destination reports can be saved at the Start or top level of the destination drive or tape.
Select End and then the reports will be created inside the last of destination folders specified by the tokens shown above.
When writing multiple sessions to a drive or tape choose End, so that the reports are kept separate.
Optionally turn on Inside YoYotta_Reports Folder for the reports to be created inside a folder.
There are also checkboxes for project and timestamped folders for both local and destination reports.
Note that MHL reports are not put into a folder as they have relative paths inside that rely on them being alongside your archive files.
If enabled an email wil be sent containing the PDF report. Add one or more email addresses separated by commas to receive PDF reports.
If there is a problem during the copy or verification then a warning email will be sent and no reports will be generated.
There is a size limit of 18MB for PDF reports sent by email. Larger reports will just be saved.
If there is a firewall then to enable report emails allow outgoing connections to https://yo.tc port 443
Setup for archive job with MD5, MHL and PDF reports
Copy of a project folder or multiple source folders
This job is going to copy from a folder called PROJECTX to a tape YY6342. The base folder is needed as part of the archive folder structure, so the destination path tokens have been set to base.
If multiple source folders are dropped in as a job then usually you will want to have base included in the path to preserve the first folder name or 'base' from each source.
Copy of a camera card or entire volume
This job is going to copy from CFAST_27 to RAID1. The destination paths have been set to project, date and volume. These optional folders are always followed by the original camera card folder structure.
Copy from a scratch folder
The job is going to copy from the source folder Files to copy to RAID3 and tape YY6342.
The destination paths have been set to project and date.
The base folder has not been included, as this is not needed as part of the archive folder structure.
Save paths and reports as a Preset
As a shortcut the path structure and report choices can be saved as a preset. The preset can then be chosen from the Edit Paths menu.
The preset always saves the destination media. When recalling a preset if there are no destinations, then those in the preset will be recalled. If you have already setup a destination then recalling the preset will leave it unchanged.
Create duplicate copies
Here the source material will be copied in parallel to DATA3 and DATA5. With multiple LTO drives you can create multiple tape copies in parallel. With just one tape drive then you will need to repeat the job with a new tape. You can also make hard drive and tape copies in parallel. Add up to eight LTO drive options to YoYotta.
All copies will run at the speed of the slowest drive. So you may want to run two separate jobs so that one copy is available before the other.
If making multiple tape copies in a single job, then the tapes should be the same generation and the drives should be the same make.
The source data is just read once, MD5 and xxHash checksums created and then is written to each destination drive in parallel. This saves a lot of time and also considerably reduces the source bandwidth required.
Two duplicate copies
COPY #1 will be written to DATA3 and COPY #2 to DATA5. When complete both destinations will contain the same files.
Spanning copy
Copy a large source by spanning across multiple drives or tapes. This job will make just one copy and will use DATA3 until it is full, then it will use DATA5. Append to COPY #1 rather than adding new media.