Apple Final Cut Server - Manual (Page 96)

96 Part I Installation and Configuration
Restoring Your Final Cut Server Catalog
While restoring your Final Cut Server catalog is easy to do, there are a number of things
to be aware of.
About Restoring Your Catalog
Restoring the catalog can actually be a destructive process.
 If you are restoring the catalog on a new Final Cut Server installation, there is no
practical existing catalog, and you can restore with no danger.
 If you are restoring over an existing catalog, the existing catalog is completely
deleted before the restore begins. If the restore files turn out to not contain what you
had hoped or do not work correctly, you can end up in worse shape than when you
started. For that reason, you are strongly encouraged to back up your existing
Final Cut Server catalog prior to restoring a previous backup file.
Before You Restore Your Catalog
Restoring your catalog may not be all you need to do to get your system working
again. If you are using restore to recover from a hard disk failure, you will need to
configure a few other areas for Final Cut Server to work correctly.
Users and Groups
You need to configure your computer’s users and groups. If your users and groups are
configured on a different computer, all you need to do is ensure this computer can
access that information. The restore function will attempt to assign the permission sets
to the same groups as when the backup file was created.
If your users and groups are configured locally on this computer, you need to
reconfigure them as they were when the backup file was created. Any groups that are
not available during the restore process will not be available to use Final Cut Server
until you manually add them in Final Cut Server System Preferences.
Devices
You should configure your computer to support any internal hard disks, Xsan systems,
RAIDs, network volumes, and external drives that Final Cut Server uses for its devices. If
any of the devices are on volumes that require a password, you will have to manually
configure those passwords using Device Setup Assistant after you have restored the
Final Cut Server backup file.
Note: Be aware that, after the restore is completed, any devices that have full scan
automations configured for them will try to perform those scans at their scheduled
time. If the device is not available and configured properly, this could lead to the scan
purging assets from the catalog.