Bulk File Handling - The Backup Menu - Fairlight Prodigy Edit User Manual

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Bulk File Handling - the Backup Menu

The Backup Menu provides four file handling commands, which all use the same scheme for choosing files. The
commands are:
Move - moves all the marked files from their current locations to one target directory
Copy - copies all the marked files from their current locations to one target directory
Backup - as in copy, but a BU (backup) file is also created, listing the files involved and the locations they
came from. This is stored in the target directory where all the backed files have been copied.
Restore - the reverse of backup, restore opens the BU file and uses it to mark the files. They can be sent back
to their original location, or to anywhere else on the system.
The Backup Menu can work with files anywhere in your system, copying and moving them between hard disks and
on and off Exabyte tapes. All operations operate in the background, and are suspended whenever MFX needs to
access its hard disks for play or record.
When backing up or restoring from tapes, files cannot be appended to the end of existing tapes, so they are always
erased as part of the procedure.
The Main Menu
In this menu the choice is made of which file management activity to begin.
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Space B/Up
Level Fade
Name Track
Grab Block
Takes Wave
Nudge Edit
Open the backup
submenu.
Open the restore
submenu.
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backup restore
Open the copy
submenu.
Open the move
submenu.
copy move
Eject the tape (if any) in your
Exabyte tape drive. To do this, the
cursor must be located on the tape
device in the File Page. The name of
the tape device is /SCX0 where X is
the SCSI address of the tape drive.
eject
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