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5.8 System menu > USB device (Backup/Restore)
WARNING: Backups from E2 work on E2 and E2 Gen2. Backups from E2 Gen2 are not backward
compatible with E2.
General
The unit's front panel contains a USB port that you can use to connect a flash drive to the Event Master unit.
The flash drive must be formatted to use the FAT32 file system. For formatting instructions, refer to
section Formatting the flash drive in the chapter “Upgrading firmware using the USB port”, page
302.
The following illustration shows the USB Backup/Restore submenu, which you access from the System
menu.
Image 5-9: USB submenu
Using this menu, you can:
• Detect the presence of a USB device.
• Backup and restore the Event Master unit configuration files. When you connect a flash drive to the unit,
the system creates a directory titled E2Backup on the drive. All configuration files are saved to this
directory.
• Import an configuration created offline, via an XML file on the USB device.
How to back up a configuration file to a flash drive
1. Insert a formatted flash drive in the unit’s front-panel USB port.
2. From the System menu, scroll to the USB Backup/Restore submenu. Select Backup Config.
The USB Backup Config submenu appears, as shown in the following illustration. The navigation cursor
appears at the default name for the first backup file.
Image 5-10: USB Backup Config submenu
3. If you wish to change the default name of the backup configuration, press SEL. Use the ADJUST knob to
change the name, as described in section “Using menu system”, page 85. Press SEL again when you
complete the name change.
4. Scroll to Backup Config and press SEL.
A confirmation message appears when the backup is complete.
If the backup operation fails, the message shown in the following illustration appears. Check that the flash
drive is properly formatted and installed, and try again.
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