Managing Live Storage Disk Space; Rule-Based Space Management; Workflow And Job-Based Space Management - Telestream Lightspeed Live Capture User Manual

Managing Live Storage Disk Space

Capture systems can consume significant disk space during operation. In order to
maintain adequate disk space, Vantage enables you to manage Lightspeed Live Server
storage automatically and manually.
In typical usage, Vantage's job expiration is an automatic, continual means of
controlling storage space. In addition, Vantage enables you to manually delete files
from Lightspeed Live Server managed storage, via the Vantage Management Console.
This is particularly useful when your Lightspeed servers are mobile—being shut down
between capture events—for transport. For example, when a live music concert/event
is performed, Live Capture is set up and started immediately prior to the start of the
event, when recording begins. Then, after a two or three hour event, the Capture
system is shut down and repacked for transport.
This results in multiple channels of 2-3 hours of recording on disk. Because the Capture
system was shut down for shipment shortly after capture was complete, there was no
time for the expiration rules to clean up storage.

Rule-based Space Management

You can set up rules to govern automated file deletion parameters you set up on
selected Live Stores.
In the Vantage Management Console Settings & Options > Storage Management tab,
create rules that govern file deletion.
Next, in Storage > Vantage Stores, select a store, and specify the rule that applies using
the Automated Cleanup menu.

Workflow and Job-based Space Management

Workflow and job-based storage space management enables you to configure your
workflows so that Vantage continually monitors jobs by age, and delete their
associated files.
You can set up the following automatic space reclamation options:
•
Workflow Expiration—in Workflow Designer, enable this setting for your workflow
in its settings panel) (see Viewing and Specifying Workflow Details in the Workflow
Designer User's Guide) to automatically delete files ingested or created by the job,
as part of the binder deletion process.
•
Expire Failed Jobs—in the Vantage Management Console Settings & Options > Gen-
eral panel (see Enabling and Disabling Expiration of Failed Jobs in the Domain Man-
agement Guide), enable the Expire Failed Jobs setting when you want failed jobs to
be expired using the same expiration rules as jobs that complete successfully. Oth-
erwise, they do not expire automatically, and binders (and file resources) are pre-
served until deleted manually.
Lightspeed Live Capture User Guide
Configuring Vantage and Updating Live Capture
Using Live Stores for Capturing Files
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