[QLab] Primary and Back Up Set up.

[Michael McDermott]

Hello there.  I have used Qlab in the past and I'm thinking of  
selling my Instant Replays and going full into Qlab.  There is one  
pending issue that I have.  I work in the Corporate A/V industry and  
in almost every situation I need a primary and a secondary back up  
machine (in case of failure).  Now here's the situation I'm  
presenting.  What is the best way to set up Qlab so that the machines  
can be identically configured on show sites?  I own a Macbook Pro and  
a Powerbook G4.  I keep all music on external G-Drives one primary  
and one back up (synced via Super Duper).  Now I know that I can name  
the external drive volumes the same, set up the show on the primary  
machine, dupe the external drives then save the workspace on the  
primary machine and move it over to the secondary back up machine.   
This isn't too complex to me but it seems like there could be an  
easier way to do this and here in lies my question.  Is there an  
easier way to make this happen?  Are there many of you out there  
using primary and back up situations like this or are you flying by  
the seat of your pants with only one machine?  There is a program in  
the windows world that offers one of the best features I've seen to  
date.  Spot On lets you build your show (i believe it's audio only)  
but when you save your show file it saves it as a "Package" all audio  
files are contained in one directory, just like Pro-Tools and Logic  
does.  This is a feature that I know doesn't exist in the current  
version of Qlab but it would be a major asset to the program.  I know  
that I would pay premium dollar for this feature and to me it is  
worth way more than the $49 license due to the amount of time it  
would save me on job sites.

Thanks in advance.