Teac MX-2424 Tutorial - Manual (Page 45)

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DVD-RAM:
A DVD-RAM drive may be installed in the front panel of the MX-2424. Combined with
the stock internal hard drive, this creates a fully self-contained system for recording and
backing up. If something else, such as a removable hard drive system, is installed in
the front bay then a DVD-RAM drive may be connected to the rear SCSI port. An
external DVD-RAM drive may be useful when the MX-2424 is to be used on location
then backup performed upon return to a studio.
There are two methods of backing up to DVD-RAM. Both methods use Smart Copy,
your choice of method is determined by how the DVD-RAM disk is formatted:
1) If the DVD-RAM disk is used un-initialized (straight out of the wrapper) then a Smart
Copy would create a .BU file on the disk. A BU backup allows a single large project
to span multiple disks and allows incremental backup. Incremental backup means
that when new material is added to an existing project that has already been backed
up, only the new material will be backed up. This is called appending. A BU backup
is proprietary and cannot be recognized by a computer.
2) If the DVD-RAM disk is initialized to FAT-32 by the MX-2424 then it will be treated
like a hard drive by the Smart Copy process. The advantage of this method is that a
FAT-32 DVD-RAM disk will be recognized by a PC. Initializing a DVD-RAM disk to
HFS or HFS+ on the MX-2424 is not possible, such an initialization must be done on
a Macintosh with the proper software – that disk may then be used on the MX-2424
and will be treated like a hard drive by the Smart Copy process.
Ethernet:
You may already have a computer with an Ethernet port and a CDR drive, or other type
of backup device (which does not use any kind of data compression). You may be
planning to have that computer run the MX-2424 graphic user interface. You could
backup your projects to the computer via that Ethernet connection and graphic user
interface. Once copied to your computer via Ethernet, the data can be archived to CDR
or anything else used by the computer for backup large enough for the files. This
method is fast and doesn’t require any additional SCSI devices be connected to the
MX-2424.
Offline:
If you are using removable hard drive systems with your MX-2424 to move audio files
between a computer DAW and the MX-2424, you can backup those recordings once
the drive is mounted on the computer just as if they had been transferred there via
Ethernet. This has the advantages of being very fast in addition to keeping your MX-
2424 available for recording while backup/restore duties are being performed on the
computer.