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The Golden Copy GraphQL API allows external systems to control, configure, and monitor Golden Copy jobs. This type of API-based data orchestration is essential to the complex global pipelines of content creators. Manually moving large amounts of data is untenable. Schedule-based movement of data aligns well with some content creation workflows; other workflows require more ad hoc data movement.
A large ecosystem of production management tools, such as Autodesk Shotgrid, exist for managing global teams. These tools are excellent for managing projects, but do not typically include dedicated data movers. Data movement can be particularly challenging when large amounts of media need to be shifted between object and file.
Conceivably, a production asset management system could trigger data moves with Golden Copy, based on metadata changes to a production or scene. This kind of API and metadata driven data orchestration fits in the Movie Labs 2030 vision for software-defined workflows for content creation. This topic is covered in some detail for tiering within a OneFS file system in the paper PowerScale OneFS: A Metadata Driven Approach to On Demand Tiering.