Prinergy 8.0 introduced a new optional feature that allows Prinergy job archives to be stored in a secured, private cloud. Archiving to cloud stores all of the job files to a cloud location accessible by your Prinergy server. This offers several advantages over disk and tape archives:
- Automatic archive redundancy. An inherent attribute of archiving to the cloud is built-in redundancy and data security. Because the archive cloud is spread across many, geographically dispersed servers the chance of catastrophic data loss is reduced significantly compared to physical, onsite archive storage strategies. You no longer have to remember to archive to multiple volumes and make secondary backups of those archives.
- Storage capacity that grows as you need it and is available just in time.
- There is no need to manually manage the volume size of your cloud storage.
- A dashboard shows the storage available at your current tier as well as a historical view of your transfer activity and bandwidth use.
Notes:
- When you re-archive a job to the cloud, it creates another save-set for the entire job and replaces the previous job archive. Job archives that have been replaced are kept for 24 hours before being automatically removed from the cloud server.
- The cloud analytics dashboard replaces the Workshop Media Manager tool for monitoring the used and free space for your cloud storage.
After you enable archive to cloud in Administrator, the cloud storage location is available in Workshop in the same way as an archive archive to disk volume:
- In the archive process template editor, you can select
CLOUD://<ServerName>/ARCHIVECLOUDfrom the list of available media pools. - In Media Manager, you can copy files between disk volumes and your cloud storage and verify that that your archive cloud can be accessed.
- In Job Manager, jobs that are archived to cloud appear on the Storage and History tabs.