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backing up FCP STudio DVDs
is there a sucessful way to do this in toast? I am getting ready to send them off to get the crossgrade, but I am worried
about some of my plugins NOT working in 5.1 on the G5. I would like to back them up to revert back to if there is
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I’m pretty sure that this is not possible even if you did a Copy Disk. I’ve heard of other people trying this and the Mac does not recognize them as a legit disk.
I did the crossgrade with no issues here. Simply insure the discs for the replacement value so if something does happen to them, you cna get a new copy of the software.
Plug-ins will work fine on Power PC’s, it’s the Intel boxes that some plug-ins will not work.
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thanks Walter.
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You should back up your system drive to an external drive. You can use Carbon Copy Cloner or PsyncX to make a bootable clone on an external FW drive, both are free. BTW, it’s a good idea to make regular backups, regardless. I run a backup (and an assortment of utilities) round about the 1st of every month, whether I need to or not.
Arnie
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Duh! Thanks for reminding me, I forgot I had it setup with SuperDuper already. I cloned a few weeks ago to make room on my main partition
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Scott,
You can back them up, but you’ll need to do it on a dual layer disk for DVDSP and Motion as both of these install disks are nearly 7GB large. I backed mine up that way using Dragon Burn and then sent off my disks (insured also – I’m paranoid about having backups).
Brad
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Scott,
I actually did use Disk Utility to make back-up disk images of the 4 installer discs. Successfully. No conjecture here….
I was also able to burn those disk images to DVD-Rs and DVD+R (dual layer), as needed. All burned discs did mount and the installers worked just fine.
Backing up your system drive won’t give you the possibility of a completely new clean install, but it should serve you well, as others have mentioned.
-Dave
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