AVID - Canon – XF Utility Compact Flash Card Media Backup Workflow

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

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

Card mounts on desktop

Launch Canon XF Utility

Go to >Canon XF Utility>
Preferences

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

Click OK

Click the Backup button

Click "Yes"

Will show a status bar of the copying process.

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.

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

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

Go to >File>Set Virtual Media

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.