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Section 11
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Advanced Features
Setting a USB Drive for Archive
Navigate to the SETTINGS menu. When
the ARCHIVE MUSIC menu item is
selected the user is presented with the
possible drives that could be used as
archive hard drives.
When an external disk drive is selected
as a backup drive it is marked as being
for backup and a directory named
‘Backup’ is created on the drive, which
will be used to store all of the backed up
music. Whenever an archive disk drive is
connected to the Server a message will
be displayed stating that an archive hard
drive has been connected and the system
will not scan the external drive as a source
of content.
It will be used solely for backup purposes
from that point on.
Backup and Restore
When the BACKUP menu item is selected
both the internal hard disk drive and the
selected archive disk drive are analysed to
determine the contents of each drive.
This process may take some time so the
user must be patient. Once the drives
have been analysed the user is presented
with a menu that allows the content of the
internal hard disk drive to be backed up to
the external USB disk drive.
The backup process is incremental. So,
after backing up once, subsequent back
ups will only copy newly added content
to the archive hard drive. This means that
the backup process is very quick after the
first backup has been performed.
Restoring
Restoring backed up music is exactly
the same as backing up but in reverse.
Again, this is an incremental process, so
restoring music that has been accidentally
deleted for example is a very quick
process.
For a quick and easy way to transfer
music onto the Systemline Server without
requiring the use of a network connection,
especially if you have more than 1999
tracks, you can use the following
procedure:
1. Take a USB2 external hard drive and
clear it of all files.
2. Create a directory called ‘Backup’ at the
root level of the USB hard disk.
3. Copy all of the music you want
to transfer into the backup directory
(preserving the directory and file structure
from the original data).
4. Connect the USB hard disk to the Server
and it will be recognised as a backup drive
because of the ‘Backup’ directory.
5. Go through the Restore process using
this USB drive as the selected archive disk
and all of the new content on the USB
hard disk will be copied to the Server.
6. Go through the rescanning process and
the new content will be incorporated into
the system.
7. You can use the same process to add
music from a USB hard disk that already
contains backed up content and only the
new music files you have added will be
copied to the Server.
11.4 Creating A Database
Back Up
In the previous section we concentrated
on archiving the music library which
meant that the actual music tracks were
copied to a different device for safe
keeping in the event of catastrophic failure
of the equipment or accidental deletion of
music files.
A database backup is different in that
only the information about the contents
of the hard drive is saved and it is saved
internally. It cannot therefore be used to
restore deleted or lost files due to hard
drive failure but is useful if the current
database becomes corrupted. This can
happen if an external device is attached
and the unit is switched off before it
has completed its database update. In
this event the user will see a message
informing them that the database must be
optimised. Here the option is to reset or
restore the database.
Also, users may wish to return to a
previous database in the event that
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