EditShare 6RU Ark Tape Library (80 Slots)

The EditShare 6RU Ark Tape Library (80 Slots) is expandable to 560 Slots, and provides an integrated solution for customers who want to have a safe copy of their media that can be easily transported off-site, or for those who want an easy and energy-efficient solution for archiving media and projects from their EditShare storage systems. Designed for EditShare’s own tape libraries and compatible with LTO tape libraries from manufacturers such as HP, Quantum, and SpectraLogic, Ark Tape facilitates creation of any number of "Tape Pools" (e.g., one for an entire organization, one for each customer or project, or separate pools for on-site and offsite). Easily copy or migrate media and related files from "online" to "offline" storage, verify backed up data, and receive notifications when transfers are completed.

Ark Tape jobs are always "incremental"; this means you can start copying files today, run the same job in the future, and only files that have been changed or added are copied. You always have the option of verifying your Ark Tape job immediately after copying files on tape, to ensure the files can be read back successfully. Alternately, run verification jobs months or years later to check on the integrity of your tapes.

Getting files to Ark Tape is a breeze and so is restoring them when you want them online again. Whenever media files are sent to Ark Tape, a proxy file is automatically created so you can view what's on your LTO tapes in Flow Browse. When you restore from Ark Tape, you can either select the exact files you want to restore using the Flow Browse interface, or you can restore entire EditShare Spaces to the exact state they were in on any date when an Ark Job was run.

Single, Unified User Interface

One clear, streamlined application lets you control backup, archiving, and restoration for both Ark Disk and Ark Tape. Because Ark is "EditShare Storage Aware", you see a listing of all your EditShare Media Spaces and Project Spaces in the Ark User Interface, allowing you to easily define which spaces to include in an Ark Job.

Scheduled or Manual Jobs

Run Ark Jobs automatically at preset times (monthly, weekly, daily, even many times a day), or run Jobs on demand.

Flow Integration

Whenever media files are sent to Ark, a proxy file is automatically created in Flow so that you can later view and search archived content in Flow Browse.

Individual File Restoration

Using the Flow Browse interface, you can select and preview the exact files you want to restore, and choose the destination EditShare Spaces where you want to put the files.

Migration Between Disk and Tape

If you have Ark Disk (sold separately) and Ark Tape, you can configure Ark Jobs to copy files from Ark Disk to Ark Tape, a convenient way to migrate files from "online" to "nearline" to "offline".