Manual

MediaCopy 3000 (or MC3K) is a media transfer application that focuses on the integrity and completenes of your data, while offloading between storage volumes.

Glossary

These are the terms used throughout the manual and the codebase:

Media source

The source a job reads: a camera card, an SSD, or any folder. Only a seal writes to it, and only in its ascmhl folder.

Destination

A folder an offload copies into.

Manifest

One .mhl file. It holds a hash for every file in the tree it sits in.

Generation

A manifest in a folder's history, numbered from 1.

Chain

The file that names every generation in order, and holds a hash of each one.

Seal

The recording of a media source's hashes in place, before anything is copied off it.

Offload

The copying of a media source to one or more destinations, and checking of each copy. Each destination carries the media source's history.

Verify

The reading of a folder again and check it against its own history.

Plan

What a job will do, computed before the job runs.

Finding

Something the plan learned that you must know. A blocker or a warning.