With a Back-up Plan!

Since the beginning of the year I have upgraded loads of systems TDM/LE from 7.4 and below to the latest version 8. This should and still is a relatively painless upgrade. I would like to suggest a “backup plan” for those of you that have heavy workloads and can’t afford technical mishap.

Anytime you have to change an operating system along side a major application upgrade there is room for error without taking necessary precautions.

The following suggestion is solely for those who are running “Tiger 10.4 OS” and Protools 7.4.

One suggestion that I would like to share is cloaning your internal drive to a secondary internal or external firewire (making a second startup disk). Then upgrading one of the Startup disk leaving one drive fully ready to go in case of performance failure. After you cloan you’re internal with carbon cloaner, install leopard os 10.5.5 or higher on one of them, then run the installer for Protools 8 and all cs updates.

After launching Protools then check all your plugins to see which ones you need to also upgrade for 8. Digidesign.com provides most all-necessary upgrade paths for plugins. This way if inside your new workflow taking advantage of version 8`s very powerful new features you can be rest assured that if something goes wrong you can quickly switch back to 7.4.

This is a major upgrade but overall it’s not that painful. Most studios and systems transfer just fine. Look at it this way, choosing the backup plan will simply allow you to have a truly “failsafe setup” Backing up your internal hard drive which houses your entire universe is a good thing to do anyway.

Have fun creating with no worries!