How do I use HD Backup for Bogart?
The HD Backup Bogart software allows you to back up, restore and delete archived projects off of an external hard drive. Before starting with the software you will need to have a properly formatted external hard drive connected to the system via USB or firewire or even eSata for new S3000 and S6000 models. The external drive will need to be formatted with the Linux based ext.3 (which can be done with the add on product "Store N' Share") or with FAT32. NTFS drives would not initially work until Bogart 4 is available. The HD Backup software should give you a command though if it doesn't see the right format of the drive and ask if you wish to format it. With both devices (the ext. hard drive and the "S" model) off, go ahead and power up the external drive first. Then power up your editor. 

Steps:
1. Be sure the system is running Bogart 2.3 or higher to work with this software. To activate it, go into the System Settings menu. Then select "Install Product". Now insert your Add On Software CD. After the disc is done reading, it will list alphabetically the add on programs for our systems. Find and highlight "HD Backup Bogart" in the list. Then click on "Activate" below. The software will install and then ask for your 12 digit license code. Enter in your code numbers, and then click on "Ok" to close the box. The HD Backup software should now be active. Go ahead and exit out of the "Install Product" menu and eject the disc.

2. The "HD Backup Bogart" screen can be found in the System Settings, on the right half of the screen. Once unlocked, you can access the "Hard-Drive backup" part of the software. Click on "Hard Drive backup". This will now open up three options:

-Save projects (Backup): This allows you to save your entire project data on a storage medium.
-Restore projects (Restore): Previously saved projects can be loaded using this function. This overwrites the project data on your work hard-drive.
-Delete backup: Deletes a backup from a storage medium.

3. To Save to your external hard drive, click on "Save Projects (Backup)"

4. Next click on "Backup Medium" to select your external hard drive. If it's not seen go ahead and exit out and then try and reboot both devices. Then come back to this same menu. 

5. Once it lists the name of default name of your external drive, click on the "Hard Drive name" box to name this drive.You can then fill in the "Description" box if you want with details of what this saved set may have stored on it. 

6. Click on "Start Backup". The save process will begin. Do not cancel or attempt to shut down while this is occurring. Let it finish the process. Once it's done, the project data on your editor will now be saved to the external drive. You can now do an installation of system software or just save the current data until you need to restore it. If you need to restore the saved material, then you can always go back into the "Hard-Drive Backup" menu and select "Restore projects" to load in the data from that saved date. Please read below on some additional notes about this process.


HD BACKUP ADDITIONAL NOTES
-A backup can be saved on different storage mediums. You can use an internal hard-drive or an external Firewire USB hard-drive, or another USB medium. It is not possible to burn an HD Backup to CD/DVD. (CD/DVD can be used on individual storyboard backups in Project Settings) A backup always saves all projects in one go. Archiving single projects is therefore not possible. So it will save projects 1 through 30 as they are when you do that backup. Even if some are empty or blank. When you choose to restore this data from the external drive, it will rewrite all this project data (of projects 1 - 30) back over the main drive you are restoring to. Just keep that in mind for the save and restore process.

-A backup saves all relevant project data. This does not contain the system data, the editing software or any archive entries (colours, text, etc.). For archives themselves, there is a separate function in the System Settings called "Save/restore archives".

-A backup stores the project data file-wise, which means that you require less space on your external destination medium than on the hard-drive in your Casablanca system. This means that you can use an external backup medium that is smaller than the total capacity of your Bogart SE system hard-drive. In addition, it is possible to store multiple projects on a backup medium until the capacity is used up.

-If you start to Restore a HD Backup, be aware that if you "Cancel" the process, the system will default to remove any information currently on the internal drive! The external drive of course would still have its saved data, but the drive you were restoring too would have blank projects if you were to do this. So be aware of this if you need to cancel a restore. 

-In most of our tests, we have used Lacie brand drives to work with the systems. You can order them here at our office. External drives formatted with FAT 32 should communicate with the system as they are. Other drives that are formatted differently might not be seen the first time you connect. The HD Backup software has a automatic command trigger up when it detects an incompatible drive. In most cases, drives can be formatted by HD Back up software if they are ones that won't be seen from the firewire or USB. You would see a menu pop up ("The current medium ___ is not in a compatible format! Do you wish to format the medium? Yes/No") to format the drive if it was one that wouldn't work. Drives that will work, would just be seen automatically and then you would note the device listed in the "Backup Medium" menu. 

-Note: Restoring a Smart Edit backup is not possible, nor restoring a Bogart backup using Smart Edit.