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Make folders on your Backup Drive that are organized by "Day" and "Number of Cards" that are to be backed up

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Load card to be backed up in to CF Card reader.

Card mounts on desktop

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Launch Canon XF Utility

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Go to >Canon XF Utility>
Preferences

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Navigate to the hard drive and folder to set the backup of the card data.

Click OK

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Click the Backup button

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Click "Yes"

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Will show a status bar of the copying process.

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This is how your backup should look.

Make sure this file hierarchy exists. If you are missing files like "INDEX.MIF"
And
"JOUNAL"

Don't alter or remove any files from this file structure. Leave intact when making additional backups.

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Last step is to copy the backup to a 2nd backup drive.

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To Verify the copy of the 2nd backup. Open Canon XF Utility

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Go to >File>Set Virtual Media

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Navigate to the backup drive and folder that you just copied over to it and select the XF Utility Generated backup folder. Example shown here.

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