developing an archive strategy

[bernie]

Our institute is starting to take an interest in archiving some of the data out of OMERO. The host institute, the University of Sussex, are in the process of commissioning Arkivum as an archiving solution and we would use this as the archive storage.
I appreciate that archiving is something that is being developed, and it's early days, but I wondered if there's anyone out there who has workflows and strategies that they use successfully that we can explore. I think we'd also be interested in helping by testing out stuff,

thanks,

Bernie

[dsudar]

Hi Bernie,

I had been contemplating the same question. With our rapidly growing repository, I'll need to consider at some point off-lining or near-lining some of the older data. I had come across this in an earlier post: http://www.omerostoragemanager.com/pages/home.php
but I have no idea whether this works and how well it actually integrates with OMERO. Would like to hear if anyone has any experience with it.

- Damir

[jrswedlow]

Dear All-

Apologies for the delay in responding to this-- our normal response time has been a bit compromised by holidays, etc.

General instructions for backup and archiving data in OMERO are at:

http://www.openmicroscopy.org/site/supp ... store.html

This will give a data backup, useful for a restore or disaster recovery. Institutions using services like Arkivum, or their own backup solution could integrate this into their backup process. At Dundee, we have a replicated tape backup solution, and our production OMERO servers are backed up there using the strategy laid out in the on-line doc.

As Damir mentioned, DAX Archiving Solutions has a backup and archiving solution for OMERO (http://omerostoragemanager.com/pages/home.php). We’re not sure whether this supports OMERO 5 or not. Maybe they can comment, or you can contact them for more info.

DAX’s solution provides an integrated, user-facing archive solution, which I assume is the kind of application Bernie is asking about. To our knowledge, this isn’t yet available from Arkivum, although it could be. We’ve discussed this idea with them a few times, so they are at least aware of the possibilities. We suggest you contact them for help on this.

From the perspective of the OME project— a grant-funded, open source consortium— we can support use of our tools for commercial products, as long as the terms of the GPL-licensing are met. It is hard for us to use grant-funded resources to support several archiving products— DAX, Tivoli, Arkivum, etc.—at the API level, since each is different. There is nothing to stop anyone in the community doing this-- it's open source! Alternatively, as most of you know, commercial licensing and on-demand customisation and support of Bio-Formats and OMERO are available from Glencoe Software (Conflict Note: I founded and run Glencoe Software).

Hope that helps. Again, sorry for the delay.

Cheers,

Jason

[bernie]

Hi Jason,

thanks for your useful reply. We've opened up discussions with both Arkivum and Dax and will report back to the forum with any progress,

Bernie

[saleht]

Hi Bernie,

We've opened up discussions with both Arkivum and Dax and will report back to the forum with any progress

can i know what is the results of discussions with Arkivum and Dax ?

i am also trying to plan archive Strategy but i need more info, i already installed free version of Dax, but
two issues bloked me
1. Dax archive not Metadata
2. omero ldap users can not login with thier Cred

Cheers, Saleh