Tascam 2488neo owner manual Restoring from CD, Using USB for backup and restore

11 − Backup and restoration

Restoring from CD

If you ever need to restore your data from a data backup CD or CDs, you basically reverse the process.

Before you start restoring a song, make sure that you have all the discs that were used to back up the song.

If some of the discs are missing, you will not be able to restore the song (you cannot load half a song).

1Put the first (or only, if there is only one) disc of the backup set into the CD-RW drive.

2With the transport stopped, press the MENU key. From the DATA BACKUP menu, select CD RESTORE. The 2488neo reads the title of the song from the disc and asks you if you want to continue.

3Press YES/ENTER to continue, NO/EXIT to eject the disc and cancel the operation.

4If you go ahead with the restore, the 2488neo copies the data from the disc to the active disk partition. A bar graph on screen shows the progress.

5If the backup is spanning more than one disc, when the first disc has been read, it is ejected, and a mes- sage asks you to put in the next disc. Insert the next disc and press YES/ENTER.

To cancel restoration, press the NO/EXIT key instead of the YES/ENTER key. You cannot cancel a restoration once it has started.

If you insert the wrong disc (out of sequence or from a dif- ferent backup set), the 2488neo ejects the “bad” disc and asks you again for the correct one. If you really cannot find the right disc, you must press NO/EXIT to cancel the restore.

NOTE

If you cancel the restore operation part of the way through, none of the song is restored, and the 2488neo goes back to the state before the restore was started.

6When data is restored from the last disc, the disc is ejected, and the restored song is loaded.

Using USB for backup and restore

By using a USB cable to connect the 2488neo and a per- sonal computer, it is possible to back up songs and restore them to and from the computer’s disk drive.

Song data that has been backed up this way is not audio data and therefore cannot be played back on a computer.

It is also possible to use the USB connection to import and export audio files. See “File import/export” on page 81 for details.

The 2488neo and USB data transfer is carried out at USB

2.0speeds (if your computer uses the older 1.1 USB stan- dard, it will still work, just slower). Consult your computer documentation for details.

NOTE

We recommend that you always use a cable designed for USB 2.0 operations to ensure accurate and fast data transfer.

See “Use with a personal computer” on page 8 for condi- tions regarding the connection of a computer.

88 TASCAM 2488neo