If you're loading from the HDD each time, then you already have what you need on the HDD...no need to re-back those things up. If you are saving new stills, you might want to consider the following: Make a folder in the Frame Mem - call it something like "NEW" Save all of your new still into there When it comes time to back up, back up only those stills in the NEW folder...add them to the existing files on your HDD. You may also want to consider adding the external frewire HDD, whose sub-menu is in the Frame Mem menu...using that, you can have up to 5 partitions; then just press the BACKUP button. It's a LOT faster than the menu HDD - one of my shows takes 30 minutes to backup or restore using the external drive...using the menu HDD it takes 2 1/2 hours. Currently the 7.1 software that we use broke the external HDD communications - we were promised that it would be fixed in about 2 weeks. The bad news is that we were promised that 2 months ago...yikes. BTW, if you're writing back to the same folder on the menu HDD when you save your stills, it shuuld not be filling up as rapidly as you are experiencing...files should be written over existing files. I have seen a problem on our system where if you select all & SAVE, files that are already on HDD stay there & the register files get saved right along with them - this doubles or triples up the data on disk & makes it a pain to load. While the HDD seems to have no protection for duplicate files, the registers do, causing an error message when it tries to load files with the same name. I solve this by going into the HDD's FILE EDIT sub-menu & deleting all of the existing stills on HDD before doing an All Save.

[quote="Toronto TD"]Can someone tell me if this is the right approach in backing up data? We have the sony 8000G After I have added stills to the switcher....which appear to be added to the REGISTER.....I figure I should now save these stills to the HDD. Seems like it just duplicates any stills that are already in the HDD. I'm selecting all in the register and all in the HDD. Is this the right way to do it? After About a week of doing this I find my HDD filling up. The reason I do it this way is because I don't want to sort through what is new and what is old. Any suggestions as to the best way to back up effects/Frame memory..etc...[/quote] What version of software are you using? Also, they MVS usually ships with a 30GB hard drive. I'm puzzled how it's filling up. If you have v7.11 or later, there is a all FM backup on the File->All menu that will save everything, including FM folders, to the HDD or memory card. You can also hook up a FireWire HDD (only MVS-8000A or MVS-8000G, though) and use the HDD menu in the FM menu to do a really fast backup and restore (well, really fast is a relative term.... it's just a lot faster than the USB drive) RE