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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 Akai DD/DR-
Series machines allow you to backup the contents of your disk(s) to SCSI tape drives via the SCSI
connection or, on the DD1500, to an ordinary DAT machine via the digital I/O. These functions are
accessed by pressing BACKUP (F5) in the DISK UTILITIES 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 drive 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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