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just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

14 Feb 2009, 07:18
make sure you guys and gals are backing up your flash drives as you create new patches/sets/svq etc.. luckily i had a backup of my most recent patch/set/svq versions. i had never thought i'd ever use a backup but now that my flash drive has "mysteriously" disappeared, i am only out the $30 or whatever it cost to buy in the first place, instead of the countless hours/days/weeks. i'm driving myself crazy thinking "what if i never made a backup?" haha.


anyway, for those who don't know or couldn't guess how to perform a backup, plug your usb drive into your computer and just do a full root directory copy to a folder on your computer's harddrive. when you need to resort to the backup, simply copy it back to the usb drive.

now, 2 questions. am i correct in assuming there are even any "gals" in this forum?

...and...

next OS update: add an electrical shock feature so that electrons will zap anybody who tried to snag the usb drive from my keyboard's memory port. to turn on/off the feature, one would have to play the correct sequence of notes on the keys.

Re: just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

14 Feb 2009, 07:22
now, 2 questions. am i correct in assuming there are even any "gals" in this forum?


I have the same question, but even though I'm pretty sure there aren't any, who knows, there are times I hope they're just hidding themselves quite well. :-P

Re: just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

14 Feb 2009, 07:49
That's a really usefull reminder althought I don't need it for myself ;-)
I usually do a full Fantom backup once every 2 weeks or whenever I have more work running. I never had any problems with the G about this but I am used to do it since the 3,5"disk days.

1 - No, I remember some girl members been Synthia probably the more knowned - she has more synths then an average man can handle ;-)

2 - Eye Recognition through the D-Beam would do it just fine :-D

Re: just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

14 Feb 2009, 08:00
Facts:

- Most people think backups are not important... until they need them...
- When you forget to backup something, you'll surelly need it sometime SOON.
- 5 Minutes after you delete those OOOLLLDDDD backups you thought you wouldn't need anymore, you'll rememeber something you needed from them.

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About turning off the "Eletrical Shock Allarm": I think it shouldn't be disable until you correctly play "Catherine Parr", from Mr. Rick Wakeman... I'd miss ever touching my FG again...

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VCO, I tried for more than 30 minutes to turn my FG on/off by placing my eye in front of the D-Bean. I think it has not been implemented! Shame on Roland! They never update our OS!

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Daniel Roma
Sao Paulo - Brazil
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Roland SH-201
Alesis QS 6.1
M-Audio Axiom 49

Re: just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

14 Feb 2009, 08:16
I back my data up after almost every session.

Re: just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

14 Feb 2009, 10:55
Could some kind, experienced user maybe let us newbies know how to go about doing a backup.

Re: just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

14 Feb 2009, 11:03
>Could some kind, experienced user maybe let us newbies know how to go about doing a back-up.

CTRL+C, CTRL+V

Copy and Paste the whole folder/folders from your USB stick onto your PC/mac and make a copy for backup...
Jesse J / The Fantom G Facebook group - Please join!

Re: just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

14 Feb 2009, 21:36
The most efficient means of back up, and the quickest...all you need is a pen/paper/and instant camera. 1st transcribe your music. (With lyrics if applicable. Include all notes, all dynamics, meter and tempo,, etc.

Then write down which instrument is on which track. Don't forget compression, eq, and effects settings.

Jot down sound edits, as well as tempo/time changes.

After everthing is well documented, take a picture for visual memory.

Buy another G and run a midi cable. Press play on the Master, and Record on the slave!

Now you have written documentation,
Visual documentation,
And now an extra G for those real workarounds!
Hope this helps, and I pray I'm not excommunicated from this awesome forum! Just thought we all could use a laugh!!
Blessings a Smiles,
Firstlovedan

Re: just a friendly reminder to back up your flash drive

16 Feb 2009, 09:02
Caleb, that's why I have my thumb drive on my keys... to take my thumb drive, you have to also take my car keys = grand theft :)

Seriously, it's a good idea to back up your thumb drive anyway. Just simply copy the contents of the thumb drive to your computer and ta-da, backup.

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