I’ve got Roon core and my music files sitting on a QNAP NAS.
I’d like to use a backup software to copy music files to an external drive for use in another location. This way I just take the external drive with me and plug it in the other system when I am there.
What software should I use to do, say, a weekly incremental backup of the Music folder on the NAS and the Roon database? My Music folder is about 3TB - it would take a very long time to copy; however, once done, if the software dies incremental, then I only have to suffer once.
From what I read on this forum, only the Roon backup software should be used to back up the Roon database.
As for music files, I would use a syncing program. That way, in the case of a needed restore, no file dates will have been changed. I use GoodSync for that purpose.
Wouldn’t QNAP Backup Station do that for you? Ideally, connect a USB 3 drive directly to the QNAP since this will be quicker than using a file copy/ sync program running across a network.
If a QNAP backup solution (or any backup solution) changes file modification dates, then wouldn’t a restore of those backed up files result in a Roon rescan? Dunno.
I’ve not used Backup station. I’m using Raid10, so am not backing up my NAS (yet). I do intend to connect the external drive directly to the NAS - will be much quicker, at least first time around.
RAID is no substitute for backup and [RAID 10] is probably a bit overkill for consumer use. I do recommend mirrors over RAID though, but that’s another topic.
My approach is to use redundancy (mirrors), plus local backup and cloud backup with deduplication and full snapshot.