Backup option for the music library

[Geoff_Coupe]

I would argue that it rounds out the Nucleus as a fully-fledged music appliance. After all, CD ripping has now been added, whilst multiple 3rd party solutions exist.

[Xekomi]

For the server / docker users, allowing to add a mount, much in the same way that it’s possible to do so for the library itself, could do the trick.

This covers pretty much everyone with a NAS that can mount an external drive. It doesn’t seem like a difficult addition.

Writing something from scratch makes no sense and buying an existing product to integrate into Roon makes less sense.

rSync could pretty much do everything I describe AFAICT.

It’d take work for a frontend, and a bit of thought for sane defaults.

Packaging that into ROCK should be a possibility (even if yes, you can do an rsync backup from a client device onto the smb share), and if there’s licensing issues, there’s a precedent on how to get around those with ffmpeg.

[Speed_Racer (Threatened Dinosaur)]

I would argue that a kitchen sink approach is a bad idea. The more crap you add on to the Nucleus the more resources are spent on that crap.

[wizardofoz (Mr Fix It aka The Wiz)]

Not only that but just takes away development of other things that users want like mobile etc…plus adds more debugging when things break.