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FireBall™ MX Series User’s Manual
BACKUP AND RESTORE
FIREBALL MUSIC BACKUP
ItispossibletobackupandrestorethemusiccontentsofaFireBallusingtheCIFSor“Windows”Networkingfeature.Backupisaccomplishedby
mounting the FireBall onto your PC or Mac desktop and using your computer’s backup software.
YoucanalsobackupthemusicfilestoanystandardmediawhichyourPCsupports,suchas:DVD+/-R/W,CD-R/RW,orexternalharddrive.
ThereareseveralmethodsandtoolsforbackupyourFireBall’smusiccontent.Youwillhavetodeterminewhichmethodisbestforyouandyour
customers. One such method involves attaching an external FireWire or USB hard drive to your PC and backing up your Content directory by using
a simple drag and drop from the Content directory to the external drive or using more elaborate features provided by a third party backup software
product such as Dantz Retrospect. A free trial of this software is provided by Dantz for both Mac and Windows users. Please visit the Dantz web site
for more details: http://www.dantz.com/en/products/personal.dtml
Only the music files are available in the Content folder. Playlists are available in the Playlists folder. Setup information, and Internet Radio stations
areNOTavailableforbackupatthistime.
A full 500 GB backup could take 2.5 days to complete using a standard 10/100 baseT Ethernet network. It is not recommended that you use your
FireBall to play music while a backup is in progress as this will cause the backup to take longer to complete.
Note: A good place to start is
the PC and MAC Integration
documents that can be found
on the Escient Web Site at
www.escient.com/support/
manualsdocs.