My typical brute force method of protection and updating on my mac pro tower is to bounce between 8 startup partitions on a 4TB internal drive. I will Carbon Copy Clone the current system drive to the next partition then update Avid. This allows my Adobe CS 6 to continue to work on each successive startup drive as well as other apps and plugins. I've always done complete backup/clones with CCC but now as I go to Ver. 7 and soon Ver. 8 there are differences in the ama plugins etc. I'm experimenting with the more incremental backup options in CCC but it seems like there will be issues with this approach. The ultimate goal would be that if I added a new 3rd party plugin that requires activation like Adobe CS 6 suite does how could I add that to one startup drive and then incrementally update the subsequent start up drives so the plug in would work on my SNDX 6.5.4, MC 7.0.4 and MC 8.2 drive. The brute force method would be to do the full Clone/backup CCC of the 6.5.4 startup and then update Avid manually on the subsequent startup disks. I see there are ways to customize what files get backed up/archived in CCC but I would think there would be several files spread out all over for Avid that get different versions for the different Avid systems. Am I just dreaming that I could start with my 6.5.4 partition and add something like the baselight plugin and activate it, or whatever the process is to register it to work, and then do some sort of an incremental backup to the subsequent Avid version startup drives?
I am assuming that once I activate a particular plugin that if I just switch startup drives and do another installation of the plugin and try to activate using the same code it will not be allowed. This may be dependent on the plugin activation scheme but I'm curious what others do for these situations? It's collaboration down the line I'm trying to maintain if at all possible with clients on older systems that won't upgrade as well as access to all my 3rd parties on all compatible Avid versions.
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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