Magma MDR 24/96 - Manual (Page 37)

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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
button.
2. Using the - Dec / + Inc
or the << / >> buttons,
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
Backup menu, then select
Backup
. Choose the desired
Project using the (-) Dec / (+) Inc
or the << / >> buttons.
4. Press OK. When the backup is completed, either select another Project to
back up or press the Backup button to exit.
BACKUP SOURCE: Internal
DESTINATION: External
Set
Source Dest Exit Backup
Select Project to Backup
Eborall Song
<< >> OK Cancel
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.