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88 TASCAM 2488neo
11 − Backup and restoration
By using a USB cable to connect the 2488neo and a per-
sonal computer, it is possible to back up songs and restore
them to and from the computer’s disk drive.
Song data that has been backed up this way is not audio
data and therefore cannot be played back on a computer.
It is also possible to use the USB connection to import
and export audio files. See “File import/export” on page
81 for details.
The 2488neo and USB data transfer is carried out at USB
2.0 speeds (if your computer uses the older 1.1 USB stan-
dard, it will still work, just slower). Consult your computer
documentation for details.
NOTE
We recommend that you always use a cable designed
for USB 2.0 operations to ensure accurate and fast
data transfer.
See “Use with a personal computer” on page 8 for condi-
tions regarding the connection of a computer.
Using USB for backup and restore
Restoring from CD
If you ever need to restore your data from a data backup
CD or CDs, you basically reverse the process.
Before you start restoring a song, make sure that you have
all the discs that were used to back up the song.
If some of the discs are missing, you will not be able to
restore the song (you cannot load half a song).
1 Put the first (or only, if there is only one) disc of the
backup set into the CD-RW drive.
2 With the transport stopped, press the MENU
key. From the DATA BACKUP menu, select CD
RESTORE. The 2488neo reads the title of the song
from the disc and asks you if you want to continue.
3 Press YES/ENTER to continue, NO/EXIT to eject the
disc and cancel the operation.
4 If you go ahead with the restore, the 2488neo copies
the data from the disc to the active disk partition. A
bar graph on screen shows the progress.
5 If the backup is spanning more than one disc, when
the first disc has been read, it is ejected, and a mes-
sage asks you to put in the next disc. Insert the next
disc and press YES/ENTER.
To cancel restoration, press the NO/EXIT key
instead of the YES/ENTER key. You cannot cancel a
restoration once it has started.
If you insert the wrong disc (out of sequence or from a dif-
ferent backup set), the 2488neo ejects the “bad” disc and
asks you again for the correct one. If you really cannot find
the right disc, you must press NO/EXIT to cancel the restore.
NOTE
If you cancel the restore operation part of the way
through, none of the song is restored, and the
2488neo goes back to the state before the restore
was started.
6 When data is restored from the last disc, the disc is
ejected, and the restored song is loaded.