7 - Backup and restore
Backup
You can use the 2488 disc drive to back up your work 2Press ENTER, and a popup appears, telling
to disc. You can either use CD-R media (cheaper, but you that the song is being saved. The HD indi-
you can only use it once) or CD-RW media (slightly cator lights as the song is saved.
more expensive, but you can erase and reuse it a The display shows the home screen after the
number of times).save has been done.
NOTE
3Open the CD-RW drive, using the eject button
The operations all deal with songs on the currently-on the drive, and load your blank disc into the
selected partition. If the song you want is on another tray, recording side down. Use the drive but-
partition, you must select another disk partition as the ton to close the tray.
active partition before proceeding (see ?Selecting the
active partition? on page 65).Now press the MENU key and select DATA
BACKUP.
The discs you make in this way are not audio CD?
you cannot play it on a CD player, and it can be read
only by a 2488. If you have friends with 2488 units,
this is a very convenient way of taking your songs
around (you could record the drums in one location,
take the CD over to the bassist, then the guitarist, and
vocalist, and then finish the mixdown at yet another
location with great monitoring facilities).
NOTE
Observe the usual precautions when working with
recordable media: handle discs by their edges, avoid
4Select your song using the wheel and press
getting fingerprints or grease on the recording surface, ENTER. A pop-up message appears telling you
and keep them clean. Also, avoid using hard pens or how many discs will be needed to back up the
pencils or oil-based markers to label the discs.song.
Have a blank CD-R or CD-RW disc ready before
proceeding with the instructions described here.5Press ENTER again. A pop-up message tells
you the progress of the backup operation.
1First, save all your song to disk.
A backup may span more than one disc.
Press MENU, select SONG, and then select SAVE.6When the backup is complete or if the first
disc is full, the disc drive tray opens. Remove
the disc, label it and store it in a safe place.
7Continue the process if more discs are needed
until the backup is complete.
NOTE
If you are backing up to more than one disc, you must
ensure that the discs are identical (from the same man-
ufacturer). Even if two discs from different manufactur-
ers have the same stated capacity, you may not be able
to use them in the same backup operation.
Restoring
If you ever need to restore your data from a data Before you start restoring a song, make sure that you
backup CD or CDs, you basically reverse the have all the discs that were used to back up the song.
process.If some of the discs are missing, you will not be able
to restore the song (you cannot load half a song).
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