Final Cut Server has an option to archive and restore assets. When archiving an asset, the asset will be moved to a file system path that is represented by the device ID. The archival and restore can be done using the steps shown in this video:
The process of archival and restore can be kicked off from the command line, which will initiate the movement of the asset. To archive an asset, you will use the archive verb with the fcsvr_client tool. This will require you to provide the asset ID number along with the device that you will be archiving the asset to. For example, to archive an asset with an ID of 318 to a device with an ID of 8 you will use the following command:
fcsvr_client archive /asset/318 /dev/8
Once archived, the asset can be easily restored provided that it is still in the archive path that it was backed up to. So assuming that the asset is still on /dev/8 you could use the following command to restore the asset (the device path is implied as it is tracked in the metadata that corresponds to the asset ID:
fcsvr_client restore /asset/318
If archiving and restoring, it is never a bad idea to log that the action was sent to the queue. For example, if the asset ID were a variable of ASSET and the device had an ID of DEV then you could use the following to log that the automation had been fired off:
fcsvr_client archive /asset/$ASSET /dev/$DEV
/usr/bin/logger “Asset $ASSET is being copied to device $DEV”