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In the Setup Window, View Settings, Multi Console configure the “Show sync type” option to “Archive”.
When set to “Archive”, MagicQ periodically checks for other consoles on the network and grabs the show files that are running
on those consoles. The show files are stored in the normal show folder.
When this feature is used to back-up multiple consoles, it is important that different show file names are used on each of the other
consoles – otherwise files from different consoles will overwrite each other on the back-up console.
Note that files will only be copied from consoles that have the “auto backup” option set to “yes” or “on changes”. Files will not
be copied from consoles that do not have this set (e.g. when the playback mode is set to “Safe”). This avoids any performance
impact from copying of files from live consoles.
When set to “Show Sync” MagicQ copies the files as above. It will then load one of the shows that it has copied. If there are
multiple consoles on the network then it will always run the show file from the same console.
This feature can be used to back up show files from PCs running MagicQ PC as well as from consoles – these PCs must have the
drive where MagicQ is installed shared on the network (e.g. share C: as C).