Archiving in Smoke consists of writing your media and project setups to external storage devices or to filesystem, to store your projects offline but in a restorable format.
A project archive includes all of a project's Media panel content, including the Media library, Shared Libraries.
You can also archive individual clips from the Media panel, and the project setups.
Archives created in Creative Finishing applications are read-only in Smoke Desktop Subscription. That is, you can restore an archive in Smoke Desktop Subscription, but you cannot add material to it.
You cannot restore a Smoke Desktop Subscription archive in Flame or the Flame Premium suite of applications.
A filesystem archive is an archive stored on a hard disk drive, such as external USB/FireWire® (IEEE 1394) hard drives offers, or shared storage such as a SAN. The device can use any of the formats supported by your workstation, but the recommended ones are ext2, ext3, or xfs for Linux, and HFS+ for OS X. NTFS is not supported.
Using a filesystem to archive your material provides the quickest method of archiving and restoring your material, which can be of any bit depth or resolution.