Escient FireBall SE-80 Technical Information download pdf (Page 8)

Mac OS X Integration WD029-1-1

2/19/2010

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Backing Up Your FireBall

Once you have successfully mounted your FireBall’s Content volume on your Mac, you now

have access to the music content contained on the FireBall’s internal hard drive. Having this

access affords you the opportunity to backup your FireBall’s music collection. There are many

ways to backup the music files including copying files to another drive mounted on your Mac or

using third party backup software to perform automated backups each night.

Note: Internet Radio Stations and System Settings are not backed up. Only the actual music

files are available for backup within the Content volume mounted on your Mac Desktop.

One Time Backup

If you are only going to make a one time backup of the FireBall for safe keeping, it is

recommended to do a simple drag-and-drop of the Content volume to another volume

mounted on your Mac. This one time backup method is useful if your FireBall music collection

is not going to change much from day to day and you simply want to preserve a copy as a

failsafe to some catastrophic event such as theft, loss by fire, or hard drive crash. This is

typically done by an installer or dealer who wants to keep an offsite copy of the installed

FireBall for safety reasons.

Escient recommends that an external hard drive be used for each full FireBall backup and

stored in a different physical location from the FireBall to reduce the possibility of loosing both

the FireBall and the Backup Drive in a single catastrophic event.

Follow these steps to backup all music files from your FireBall to an external hard drive

connected to your Mac.

1. Connect an external hard drive to your Mac which is equal or greater in capacity to

the size of the music library you will be performing a backup of.

2. From the Finder, double-click the CONTENT volume to display it’s contents.

3. Choose Select All from the edit menu to select all of the files and folders in the

CONTENT volume.

4. While all the items on the Content volume are highlighted, click and drag from the

CONTENT volume to the Backup drive.

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