Network Drive for backing up files

Any reason you don't set up the consoles in Master/Slave configurations ?, this way all saves go to all consoles at the same time (which is how I think it works).  Then you wouldn't need a network drive as all consoles would be using the same file.

Sounds like a job for macro.

Currently the console can only save to one location at a time--There is a spec somewhere that says you should be able to save to all attached drives at once, not sure where it is on the list though. 

hey rick, don't think this can be done with a macro, since they don't record which folder you save your file to.

Hi Juan,

 I'm not sure it would work, but its a hack around that may work for your purpose.

I assume your network drive is a PC of sorts, or is it literally a NAS?  If a PC, should be simple enough to map the ION internal drive as a network drive on the PC. Then set the ION default save path to the network drive. Then set a simple sync script (rsync or similar) to run every 5 minutes or so to check the PC drive and copy anything new to the Mapped Ion drive. Your Ion drive would be behind by a few minutes, but it would accomplish what you need without having to double save and your time stamps would line up vs being off by 20 seconds when you double save.

Its just a thought. There may be implications for the almost circular file mapping that I'm not thinking about.

Hi Steve,

As far as I understand it, the show you are working on is in your main console and the network (virtually in any other console). The problem is if you want to recover any other show from a console that is not the primary. For example, you want to go offline with a client, and check a previous show to work on it. This just can be done if the file storage is on the net. 

We are doing this kind of thing everyday while programming a show on the Main Console (we are an Opera House in Madrid, Spain, and we work as a Rep. in the sense that we might have a production Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a different production on Tuesdays a Fridays, and even a different event the other 2 days of the week).

Hello Benjamin,

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately the network drive is just a hard disk in the network. I am not quite sure how I could do the sync script you recommend every five minutes.

Maybe the simplest thing is to do a manual back up by Show Folder using the "File Manager" in Settings, at the end of the day. I guess we cannot do any macro for this since we are in "Settings", and also as ueliriegg said, we cannot produce a macro working on the show file since we need to create a folder with a specific name.

Thanks to all of you.

Juan Carlos STONEX said:

Hi Steve,

As far as I understand it, the show you are working on is in your main console and the network (virtually in any other console). The problem is if you want to recover any other show from a console that is not the primary. For example, you want to go offline with a client, and check a previous show to work on it. This just can be done if the file storage is on the net. 

We are doing this kind of thing everyday while programming a show on the Main Console (we are an Opera House in Madrid, Spain, and we work as a Rep. in the sense that we might have a production Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a different production on Tuesdays a Fridays, and even a different event the other 2 days of the week).

From what I just read in the v2.0 manual (Pg 360), in a Primary/Master -  Backup/Slave configuration, you can enable Synchronized Backup, which has the same show files on all Primary and Backup devices.  Thus if you then take a console off-line to use as an Off-Line Editor, it will have the most recent data files. 

When you bring that desk back on-line, you would then have to re-sync manually, any show files manipulated on the Off-Line console back to the Master and any other consoles to insure that all desks are on the same show file(s).

In any event, manual manipulation of the data files would be required.  I'm old school and routinely save to the HD as well as to a USB thumb drive, sometimes 2.  Thus I am always doing a Shift/Update as well as then a Save As to the USB.  What you are essentially looking for is a more automated process that eliminates the need to navigate through the CIA, as saving to a network drive is really no different then saving to a USB.  You need at all times, to be paying attention to the time stamps to make sure whatever show file you are running is the most recent, but you would have to do that anyway, network drive or no.

Thanks Steve,

Your explanation made me see everything much more clear. I guess as you say, there is not at the moment an automated way of saving shows in 2 different places at the same time. Nevertheless is just few more clicks to do the job.

Take care and Happy New Year

Attached is a very quick and dirty windows batch file to find all consoles and copy ShowArchive (if shared) to c:\ShowArchive\[ConsoleName] on the local machine.

Assumes EOS Offline Client is installed.

Thank you for the batch file. I haven´t tried it yet, but I will let you know the results.

Juan Carlos Pascual