Magma MDR 24/96 Quick Start Manual - Project Backup / Restore

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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.