I am quite aware that the hardware configuration has nothing to with the question of needing to do a backup or not. But I do not like to talk about a systemnot making clear how the system looks like.
Yes, you are right third party backup-software may not be reliable. Therefore I use a profssional software to backup all my data, thease are several TB of data. The backup is keeping version dependig on the configuration. For example there is no need to have a configaration for 30 versions for music-files. These files are not changing rapidly. Bt the daily report, diary-report for the costumers (also used as the basis for the invoice at the end of a month), project-files, book-keeping and so on are very nice to ALWAYS available. Therefore a mirros-system is quite a good idea. It is not really a problem not having the music-files ready for several day, but having no access to the project-documents because of a hardware failure is really bad and may cost quite a lot of money.
Maybe I am a bit paranoid, but the extrem3ely imported files are copied every day into a data-storage in the the swiss-mountains. This data-storage is also used by swiss-banks to keep their data save.
The unpredictable updates do not seen very imported to me. I am using ROON just for selecting the music on my system.
You seem to be using the description of your system as reasons #1 and #2 for why you don’t need Roon’s Backup. As in this quote -
And reason #3 and #4 talked about real backup schemes -
I think you misunderstand what ‘third party software’ means. You are one party, Roon is another party, and non-Roon software used to do backup of Roon’s database can be considered third party, professional or not.
These backup schemes you use to backup your music files, daily reports, invoices and so on are all well and good, but they won’t necessarily work for Roon’s database.
You asked -
And I answered -
Not sure what that means or how it might change my answer.
The bottom line is that if you want to ensure you have a good backup for any restore that may be needed, you need to use Roon’s Backup.
I am using the ROON-backup-software. Just not quite sure wether or not it usefule if I can create the indices without a problem agin. Okay the ROON background-action will be lost, so what?
Today i included the ROON-backup into the mirror-system. So the backup is mirrored and backuped to a thir server.
If you ever have a problem with Roon, you will be glad you have a recent update of Roon on a separate hard drive. There is no reason NOT to back up Roon using the Roon backup solution. One of the trouble shooting steps is to install Roon on another computer temporarily. But, if you don’t want to, then don’t.
Being in the IT since 1980 I am quite aware of the importance of a backup. I just wanted to talk/discuss about the benfits of a backup since I can reproduce the data without problems by creating a new database. OK, I learned that ROON is doing some stuff which I probably do not see. Within the last year I switched the music-server twice, started the „SEARCH“ and went to bed. Next morning everything was fine again. Of course I changed the server-IP before starting the search.
As far as I understand there are three different „areas“ 1. ROON-Software, 2. Music-files (flac, mp3, and so on), 3. the database
Loosing the ROON-Software means installing the software again, on the same or a different hardware
Loosing the Music-files means to restore the flacs from my backup-system by using my own system-backup. ROON is not making a backup of these files.
Loosing the index-database of the ROON-Server which means to a. restore the ROON-backup or b. to start searching and indexing again.
If I have to reinstall my music-files on a different-server because of a hardware failure, is it a good idea to restore the index-backup to use it with the new server? Or is it better to start indexing again?
Are there any information about the storage of the music-files included in the index-database?