I save a maximum of 10 backups. Backup the database daily. When I look in the folder where the backup goes - I don’t see the 10 backups. It kind of just looks like one backup. Is this normal?
Yes, the backups are incremental (they store a base backup and then the changes between backups, and this is in a technical format, not for humans to read). If you go to the restore menu, you should see them all ordered by date.
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Thanks. Perfect.
Is there a way to test your backups to ensure nothing is corrupted?
Restore one, that’s the only way to be sure.
Before doing that, backup the current state as a separate new manual backup into a new folder, so that you can return to this.
If you don’t want to test a backup restore to your current main Roon installation, you can install Roon on a different PC and then restore the backup there, without affecting your regular Roon.
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Isn’t this a bit recursive? Because you should test this new backup for integrity before restoring the backup that you are testing in order that you can be sure that you can restore the current state after the test 
Joking aside, this is what I do. No need to do the explicit manual backup or take any other precautions to avoid losing your Roon database in the event of a restore failure.
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Yeah but one could do the separate one, restore it on a new install to ensure it works, then try restoring an incremental one, too
I occasionally do a separate manual backup into a new location to ensure that I have a fresh, non-incremental one. Guards against incremental failures, and more backups is always better.
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