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Description Of Issue
I have had the nucleus for about 3 months now. I back up to a usb stick in the back of the nucleus . This has worked flawlessly until now.
I have a daily back up set but it has now come to light that the last back up was done on 19th August.
I have tried to do a manual back up to the usb stick and I get an error message saying directory can’t be found.
I will try and add some photos to see if this helps.
Hi Dylan
I will have to unplug the USB to check this.
However I set it to do a back up every day but to only keep 3 from what I recall. Surely this would not fill the USB stick?
Yes I have now managed to back up to a WD My Passport
I have plugged my USB stick into the lap top and I am unable to delete any of the Roon Back ups. I was going to delete them and start again.
I do a Windows scan of the USB stick to see what the issue is and it says the USB stick is write protected?
This has worked ok for about 3 months. The only issue i can recall is I had a power cut in the storms and I had to reset my Roon Core …not sure if any of this helps
So my usb stick has suddenly become write protected , I think this is the issue . I have no idea why this would happen or how to fix this if I can
Thanks for the replies guys . The first method did not work .
Way too much hassle to fix this , all I want is to listen to music in my spare time. Not take up time with all of this nonsense .
So yes simplest thing is to buy another usb drive . Annoying as this was only recently purchased solely to use with the nucleus
OK on a serious note does anyone know why this has happened?
I have been reading a lot about file size names etc etc . I am pretty clueless about all of this. I dont want to keep spending £20 after £20 on a new USB stick if this keeps occurring.
As i said this USB stick is only a couple of months old and was bought exclusively to put in the back of my Nucleus and leave it there.
Yeah I gave tried this , but my USB stick takes forever to be recognised now . I am assuming that it is now well and truly b…d . A technical term
I am more interested in how this could have happened. I will order another one and hope it does not happen again.
I could back up to my lap top as its on my network I would guess but I am pretty clueless about how to do this. I liked the USB option as it sits in the back of the Nucleus and it backs up overnight
Make sure you have Network Discovery and File Sharing enabled on you Windows 10 PC.
Go to the folder you want to back up Roon to and right click on it and select Properties.
Go to the Sharing tab, and under Network Path select and copy the name. It might be something like “\\SCOTTS_PC\Users\scott\Roon_Backups” (you will only use the part between “\\SCOTTS_PC\Users” for the network path)
In Roon, go to Settings>Backups>Scheduled Backups and select “Add”
Go down to Backup Locations and select “Browse”.
On the bottom left column of Choose Folder to Backup To select “+ Add Network Share” at the bottom.
This brings up the Add Network Share screen.
Under Network Share Location paste the name of your Windows PC Folder you copied above. (e,g \\SCOTTS_PC\Users)
Enter your username and password for login. This needs to be a local login username, not your Microsoft Account username (AFAIK). Usually the Workgroup is left empty.
If all goes well, the network path to your Windows PC that will be added as a network share and will show up under the Choose Folder to Backup To screen. You can then select a folder under that network path to save to.
Many thanks for the detailed reply.
I have already ordered another usb stick as this is the option I prefer .
However I have took a photo of your post and if the usb fails again I will have a go at setting this up. Once again thanks
You’re welcome. It’s something I needed to do on my own system anyway, so I thought I’d just write down the steps as I did them.
It REALLY doesn’t hurt to have a critical backup in a couple of places. You never feel that way until your system crashes and your primary backup has crapped out on you. The nice things about the Roon Backup system is you can set up multiple backups with different schedules. Only downside of backing up to your PC is it has to be awake when the backup happens.
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