Transfer

Transfer types

When transferring your assets to the news archive, you will get access to two separate buckets – an archive bucket and an incoming bucket.

The two-bucket approach to incoming assets is designed to make the imports smoother. Make sure you know the difference between the transfer types before you start importing contents to the News Archive.

Archive transfer

Archive transfer is a batch import transfer, and the method you should use when moving your existing archive. Archive transfers are low priority jobs, and therefore only suited for larger import jobs.

To perform an archive transfer

Use the designated archive s3 bucket.
Upload all assets and their associated metadata files in accordance with the News Archive migration docs.
Notify NTB staff to manually start scanning the archive bucket.
Assets will be imported into our system as soon as possible.

Daily transfer

Daily transfers are used for regular ongoing transfers. Assets imported to the daily transfer bucket are given high priority, and is therefore only suited for smaller, high-priority imports.

To perform a daily transfer

Use the designated incoming s3 bucket
Upload one or more assets along with their metadata files in accordance with the News archive migration docs.
Our system will continuously monitor for new assets.
Assets will be automatically imported into our system as soon as possible, without the need for manual intervention.

Transfer strategies

We support two strategies for asset transfer, individual and zip.

Zip is the recommended strategy