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voodochille · #1 (**permalink**) 03-28-2006, 07:22 PM

Can anyone give me any information on using the backup/restore function in apogee printdive series 3? The pdf manual on the cd is horrible. It doesn't tell me anything important like how to actually use this function.
Thanks,
Nate

JHBUSH1973 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-29-2006, 01:09 AM

We tried to get it to work some time ago. It seems ok if you have the space for it and constantly need to pickup raster data. Sorry I can't tell you more we back our jobs up and restore the whole ticket and resubmit it.

Seagull · #3 (**permalink**) 03-29-2006, 02:21 PM

Well here's how i use it. i have enough room on my server and i back up all my impositions to my created Drive:H and also to DVD. My H drive is about 75% full now after about 10 months, so if i need a job for a rerun i just open the raster backup window to see all my backed up files. Then i select the job required, right click, select restore and it returns to the main print drive window. If the job is not on the server i just pop in the DVD and copy it into my raster backup location on my Drive:H and restore as previously mentioned. You are corrected on the lousy documentation that comes on the cd.

Hope this helps

voodochille · #4 (**permalink**) 03-30-2006, 12:40 PM

Thanks for the info. What I want to do is copy all of our inactive jobs onto DVDs for archiving and then delete them from the printdrive machine. It seems that the entire machine must be restarted to make them show up again once copied back into the backup data folder. Has anyone else found this to be true? Anyone have any kind of documentation from agfa thats better than the PDFs on the Printdrive CD? Any help is appreciated.
nate

Seagull · #5 (**permalink**) 03-30-2006, 02:38 PM

I'll do a test at my place for you to see if i get the same result, i'm pretty sure i've just copied the job back into the raster data folder and it showed up right away, i might be wrong, i haven't had to do it that often. At the most i would think you would only have to restart the software, anyways i'll get back to you on it.

Seagull · #6 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 01:10 PM

Sorry guy's i have not had time all week to do the test, it's already been a full weeks work in 3 days. Tomorrow morning i should have time, i''l be in touch with my results.

Seagull · #7 (**permalink**) 04-07-2006, 02:01 PM

Hello all back with my test, voodochille you are correct about rebooting the entire system when bringing jobs back from dvd, seem's odd but i guess there is database that need to be updated, my Agfa rep was at the shop yesterday and he didn't even have a solid reason why. Anyway i have a 150gb of space set aside just for my raster data so i won't be rebooting that often to bring jobs back.

Viper · #8 (**permalink**) 04-20-2006, 04:58 AM

Here's another scenario for you to compare:
We have over 3,500 jobs in Raster archives on Print Drive.
The subject of disk space and fault tolerence is a big concern.

We have the Archive and active rasterdata volumes on an EMC SAN.
PD using the SAN volumes perform perfectly!
I've had issues in the past using internal raid cages causing all the data to be scrambled.
I learned that the more data you store in the PD Archives, the better your recovery methods had better be. Better yet, spend the money and use an external disk array with fault tolerence.

agony_of_cain · #9 (**permalink**) 07-14-2006, 12:24 PM

I was maxed out at 93% before we got upgraded to AX 3.0. I'm so lazy at backing things up. sheesh :roll:

Viper · #10 (**permalink**) 07-15-2006, 10:11 AM

You will "Pay for your lack of vision" (as Darth says)
one day runing your space maxed out like that.
I only hope your disk sub-system is not hard coded to a finite size.