Project Backup / Restore

With Mackie Media drives, you can back up your Projects on removable media that you can hand to the client or store in your tape library. Backing up and restoring Projects is as simple as copying the Projects between the internal and the Mackie Media drives.

To copy Projects between the internal and Mackie Media drives:

1.

Press the Backup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BACKUP SOURCE: Internal

 

 

 

 

 

button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DESTINATION: External

2.

Using the - Dec / + Inc

T

BACKUP

D

 

 

Set

 

 

 

 

 

 

or the << / >> buttons,

 

 

 

 

Source Dest Exit Backup

 

select Set Source to set the drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the Project will be copied from, and Set Dest to set the drive the Project

 

will be copied to. Since a Project can’t be copied onto itself, the Source

 

and Destination drives must be different.

 

3. Select OK to return to the

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select Project to Backup

 

Backup menu, then select

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Backup. Choose the desired

 

 

 

 

Eborall Song

 

Project using the (-) Dec / (+) Inc

 

 

 

or the << / >> buttons.

 

 

 

<<

>> OK Cancel

4.Press OK. When the backup is completed, either select another Project to back up or press the Backup button to exit.

It is extremely important that you make backup copies of your projects at the end of each session. While digital recording technology is highly reliable and hard disk media is durable, sometimes stuff just happens. To reduce your risk of catastrophic data loss (and the possible loss of $$ and clients), back up your projects on two media before deleting them from your working drive(s).

There…. now you know better. So, don’t wait until disaster strikes to get backup

religion, and don’t complain to Mackie when your pet Rottweiler discovers that the only copy of your client’s $20,000 project makes a superb chew toy and buries the drive in the garden.

All media must be formatted before it can be used with the MDR24/96. Formatting erases the media’s contents and prepares the file system for use with the MDR24/96. You can format media with the MDR24/96, or use existing FAT16 or FAT32- formatted media. Mackie Media M•90 drives come pre-formatted and ready to use, as do ORB disks for the Mackie Media PROJECT drive (be sure to buy IBM formatted ORB disks). Most off-the-shelf UDMA IDE drives do not come pre- formatted.

Although you can use almost any IDE drive for backup, not all UDMA IDE drives are fast enough to be used for recording and playback. If you want to use your own UDMA IDE drive for recording and playback, you must format it with the MDR24/96, then verify that it is fast enough to record and playback at the maximum data rate (24 track, 24-bit, 48 kHz). If the drive passes the performance verification test, it is permanently “tagged” as a real-time drive. If it fails, then the drive can be used for backup only. External drives that fail the record verification test will appear with an asterisk (*) in the front panel menus and dialogs.

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