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Mac OS X Integration WD029-1-1
2/24/2005
6325 Digital Way Indianapolis, IN 46278 317.616.6789 phone 317.616.6790 fax www.escient.com
Backing Up Your FireBall
Once you have successfully mounted your FireBall’s Content volume on your Mac, you now
have access to the music content contain on the FireBall’s internal hard drive. Having this
access affords you the opportunity to backup your FireBall’s music collection. There are many
ways to backup the music files including copying files to another drive mounted on your Mac or
using third party backup software to perform automated backups each night.
Note: Playlists, Internet Radio Stations, and System Settings are not backed up. Only the
actual music files are available for backup within the Content volume mounted on your Mac
Desktop.
One Time Backup
If you are only going to make a one time backup of the FireBall for safe keeping, it is
recommended to do a simple drag and drop of the Content volume to another volume mounted
on your Mac. This one time backup method is useful if your FireBall music collection is not
going to change much from day to day and you simply want to preserve a copy as a failsafe to
some catastrophic event such as theft, loss by fire, or hard drive crash. This is typically done
by an installer or dealer who wants to keep an offsite copy of the installed FireBall for safety
reasons.
Escient recommends that a 300 GB external FireWire drive be used for each full FireBall
backup and stored in a different physical location from the FireBall to reduce the possibility of
loosing both the FireBall and the Backup Drive in a single catastrophic event. FireWire hard
drives from Maxtor and LaCie are readily available in 300GB sizes.
Follow these steps to backup all music files from your FireBall to an external hard drive
connected to your Mac.
1. Connect an external hard drive which is equal or greater 300 GB to your Mac.
2. From the Finder, double-click the CONTENT volume to display it’s contents.
3. Choose Select All from the edit menu to select all of the files and folders in the
CONTENT volume.
4. While all the items on the Content volume are highlighted, click and drag from the
CONTENT volume to the Backup drive.