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Chapter 6: Configuring Your Pro Tools System 67
Backing Up Your System
Configuration
After configuring your system and Pro Tools,
you should save an image of your system drive
using a backup utility such as Bombich Carbon
Copy Cloner or Time Machine (Mac) or Acronis
True Image or Norton Ghost (Windows). By do-
ing this, you can quickly restore your system
configuration and settings if you encounter any
problems.
Configuring MIDI Setup
If you plan to use any MIDI devices with Pro Tools,
do one of the following:
 On Windows, configure your MIDI setup with
MIDI Studio Setup. See Appendix C, “Configur-
ing MIDI Studio Setup (Windows Only)” for de-
tails.
– or –
 On Mac, configure your MIDI setup with Au-
dio MIDI Setup. See Appendix B, “Configuring
AMS (Mac OS X Only)” for details.