Ingest Content

Plug external hard drives directly into the node, and copy their contents into a space.

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Select your USB storage device. Next, click and then click .

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Select the space into which you would like to ingest your content.

Optional Use to create a new folder inside the space.

Select the folder into which you would like to ingest your content. Then click .

Optional Use to set how quickly you would like the copy to occur.

WARNING

If you set Job Priority to , the node will throttle all connected users until the copy and sync completes. This means that files will upload, download, and stream much slower. Only set Job Priority to fastest if no one else is connected to the node.

Optional Use to choose how you would like to handle different copies of the same file in the USB device and in the destination folder.

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When in doubt, you can always choose to overwrite all files, and also turn on archive overwritten files.

If you want to overwrite all files, and you don't want to archive overwritten files, you can always take a snapshot of the space before you ingest files into it. That way, if you find out that you need to get an overwritten file back, you can always retrieve it from a snapshot.

Optional Use to synchronize the contents of the USB drive with the space. Use to move files that would have been overwritten to a backup folder. Use to create a folder inside the destination folder, and copy all of the files on the USB drive into it.

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Optional Click to view progress on the ingest.

WARNING

Your external hard drive must be formatted as FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, HFS+, NTFS, ext2, ext3, or ext4 in order to ingest its contents. External hard drives formatted as APFS, are not supported.

If you try to plug an APFS formatted hard drive into the node, it will not appear in the ingest tab.

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If you would like to move content from an external hard drive formatted as APFS, you can connect the external hard drive to your workstation, access a space as a network share, and then copy the content from the drive to the space, over the network.

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You cannot directly write data from the node to an external drive

If you would like to write data from the node to an external drive, connect the drive to your workstation, and then copy the data from a space on the node to your external drive.