Editions

This option is available for all users of v6.1 and above from Essentials through to Enterprise Perform and for on-premise users.

Note: the limits on the size of ingest packages for your edition continue to apply, the “Incremental” aspects of this method enable you to keep within these limits and ingest at scale. This option does not enable you to ingest single files over the size limit.

The method is not available for Starter.

Preservica Versions

This document is valid from v6.5.

Introduction

In its simplest form, this method to Ingest at Scale lifts and shifts folders and files into Preservica, placing them all under the folder specified in the Workflow Context and sets them with the permission “open”. Descriptive Metadata can be added with a small adjustment to existing .metadata files.

If you have

1. a large amount of content you wish to ingest
2. the structure of files and folders you have on your source locations will be replicated in Preservica
3. you have some IT skills to enable you to record the choices you would have made in PUT in an XML document(s) to accompany the ingest
   OR
4. you are willing to change security tags and add metadata templates post-ingest

then the Bulk Ingest process using OPEX may be a useful Ingest method.

Associated Documents

For more detail, please read the the Guide to OPEX Ingest and Monitoring.