#PAR backup?
I use my PAR drive's full capacity for most projects now. I do lots of slomo
and special effects as well as animation from 3DS and Elastic Reality.
Because of this I generally backup first to my DOS drive as the disk
gets full. I later backup to the QIC-80 tape for archive purposes
after the client pays the bill. When I've ever had to restore to do
some video editing with these files, I have not had any problem
restoring to the dos drive first, then I port the *.ani file to the
PAR drive using the PAR.exe import feature. I have never had a
problem. I have been doing this since the first week I owned the PAR.
I gather most problems people are having with the PAR drive is that
they think of it as a common dos drive. It is not a common dos
drive! If you start thinking of it as an animation playback tool
that requires special software to operate you will probably have
fewer problems. I've heard many horror stories about the PAR,
including people using Norton utilities, FDISK etc. crazy!