November, 2011 How-To Newsletter #1
To all of our customers and reseller partners;
On a recent tech support call involving our CTO the discussion focused around extremely useful but lesser known tips regarding our BrightClip Pattern Filter. This started us thinking; why not distribute this type of information, plus more, to all our partners and end-users on a regular basis.
Starting today Bright will be publishing a monthly how-to newsletter exclusively to our customers and reseller partners registered in our support ticketing system. These how-to's will feature basic and valuable tricks to further utilize Bright software in your environment. From DataMover, to BD Admin, BrightClip, and more this newsletter will be your exclusive guide to our entire catalog of products.
This month's tip starts with BrightClip, specifically BrightClipCopy ("BCCP"), and explaining a few of its unique settings that you might be able to use in your SAN.
How to Feature By Roger Beck:
Situation:
My workspace performance is not always the same after
transferring files into my volume. I use various graphical or
command line tools for data management. The copy process might be
fast and everything looks good and fancy via the graphical
interface and all files are in order, but my workspace still seems slow!
Cause:
Most bundled graphical or command line based tools are not
sequence aware, they hand the content over how it's laid down on
the source file system. There is no real rule how files on a non-sequence aware file system get allocated, hence this issue
affects all OS platforms and none is better than the other.
Solution:
Customers who run BrightClip on their BrightDrive have the
advantage to use the command line tool "bccp"
(BrightClipCopy) which is included in the BrightClip-Client
Library installer. Bccp is the little brother of
DataMover, and as a Bright tool, like all our tools, is sequence aware
and will analyze the content prior to the copy process. Analyzing before copying will not only hand over the content in sequence, it will write directly to the managed area (aka "media area"). Using bccp instead of cp,
cvcp, rsync or other similar non-sequence aware tools, it is much more effective. Once
the content has been copied into the workspace it won't need
additional management because there is no better way than to lay
down the data sequenced and in one continuous segment or chunk.
Bccp is quite simple to use; verification is enabled by
default and it uses the basic flags like other tools do. Under
Windows a simple copy of a single file can be done with:
bccp.exe
e:\project\my_large_movie.mov o:\projects\vip\trailer\movies\.
Using bccp for a sequence in a Linux environment is as
simple as any other tool:
bccp -rp
/mnt/disk_drive/project/shot-1 /mnt/ol01/vip/trailer/.
Full instructions can be found in the BrightClip User Guide
which can be downloaded from our helpdesk system.
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A Note from Director of Sales, Shawn Clark:Sometimes no news in our industry is good news. We have a very unique
and wide spread customer base and this can sometimes mean we lose
frequent opportunities for contact with our customers until service is
requested, or a support contract is nearing expiration. I would like to
take a moment to express that any of our customers may contact us at any
time, for any reason. We are always looking for input about our
products, and ideas on what you might want to see in future releases.
Hopefully this newsletter allows for more frequent communication between
all of us here at Bright, and all of you. Every now and then, the
Brightest ideas are those we never thought our partners were looking
for!
-Shawn
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Afterword:With product updates and patches, and now this newsletter,
staying current with your support contract has never been more
important and valuable. Our customers and reseller partners can
turn to this exclusive newsletter to get the tips, tricks and
knowledge first before everyone else.
We'd like to remind everyone
about a few of our ongoing offers to under support customers:
- G1 Server Rebuilds to update to StorNext 3.5.2 (where
applicable)
- 30 Day Trials of DataMover, and DataWrangler
- Admin GUI For G2 Users and G1 Users
- Monitoring Tool For G2 Users
Please contact support, or sales through the ticketing system for
details.
Thanks for this opportunity to reach out to our valued customers and
reseller partners, We sincerely hope this is a valuable addition to
your support contract with us. Please look forward to our next
newsletter, in early December, featuring another useful tip for another Bright product.
Sincerely,
Bright Technologies
Bright Technologies, Inc.
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Reno, NV 89521
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