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Connect Archive Storage (not Lustre)

1. Filesystem Devices
2. SCSI Tape Drive Devices

Archiving to USB 2.0, FireWire (IEEE 1394) and fibre channel devices is supported. This includes filesystems, tape drives, and VTRs. For information on connecting a VTR, see Connect video components.

Filesystem Devices

USB 2.0 and FireWire (IEEE 1394) attached devices must be use one of the following filesystems: XFS, ext2, ext3, or HFS (Mac). NTFS is not supported.

NoteCare must be taken to ensure that the filesystems used to store archives are reliable, stable and properly backed up so as to protect the archive integrity. This functionality is not provided by the application.

SCSI Tape Drive Devices

SCSI tape drives can be connected to a fibre channel port of the workstation by way of a fibre-channel-to-SCSI bridge, such as the Atto FibreBridge 2390D. The tape drive device must meet two criteria. First, the device’s driver must accept standard UNIX tape device calls. Second, the device must be certified for use with the currently supported version of the workstation operating system and kernel.

While Autodesk Media and Entertainment makes no certification statement about any tape drive device, you can use the “Tape Drive Test” plug-in in Autodesk SystemCentral to test SCSI tape drives for compatibility. For more information, see the Autodesk SystemCentral User Guide.