Backing Up Your Work; Backing Up To Scsi Tape Drives - Akai DD1500 User Manual

22 - SYSTEM - DISK

BACKING UP YOUR WORK

As disks become full or projects get finished, you need some way to backup the material
for safe keeping so that, if needs be, you can come back to it at a later date. You could,
of course, simply copy it all off to another disk of some form but this can be an expensive
way of doing it.
A more cost effective method is to backup to some form of tape medium and the DD1500
allows you to backup the contents of your disk(s) to SCSI tape drives via the SCSI
connection or to an ordinary DAT machine via the digital i/o. These are accessed by
pressing BACKUP (F2) in the DISK page.
When you press BACKUP, you will see this screen::
You should select the device you wish to backup to - AUDIO DAT or SCSI TAPE.

BACKING UP TO SCSI TAPE DRIVES

Assuming you press SCSI TAPE, you will be taken to this screen:
Before we look at the actual functions, an understanding of SCSI tape drives is in order.
SCSI tape drives can be regarded as slow, linear disk drives. A single tape can contain
several backups. However, whereas a disk drive has just the one directory where
information relating to the data on the tape is stored, a tape drive has a directory for each
backup on the tape.
Of course, you may find it easier to keep track of backups by backing up each disk/project
to its own SCSI tape (i.e. one tape will contain only the contents for one backup) but you
may, if you wish, make several backups to one tape and then restore them individually by
name if you prefer.
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