B1448 Data loss following machine crash

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It’s definitely not related to the latest EA build, but I suspect it’s always been this way.

Anyway, my server where Roon runs (windows 10 enterprise ltsc) has crashes at least 5/6 times a month that make it restart.

I noticed that this deletes everything you’ve done since the last “clean” shutdown of Roon.

I’m talking about everything: from the listening queues of the various zones, history, play counts, favorites (or banned), changes made to albums, metadata, tags. Everything.

It seems that to permanently fix all the information in the db, you have to do a voluntary restart of Roon. For this reason, every day (or every time I make a fair amount of changes) I perform a server restart.

Ok, an unexpected shutdown or restart of the server due to windows or a power outage could cause problems, but I would expect it to be done by processes that were running at that moment (I’m listening to a track->power outage->server restart->reopening Roon, listening to that track is gone), not things done hours or days before.

I don’t know if it’s a bug or the behavior of the db used by Roon. I wanted to report it anyway

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Roon uses a memory based copy of its database and only writes the updated database data to the disk periodically.

Closing the Roon Server application would force the database flush to disk operation to be performed (as would, I would imagine, performing a database backup).

I was under the impression that Roon also periodically flushed the database to RAM - but I don’t know where that impression came from now and I certainly can’t find a setting that allows you to control how frequently this happens.

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