I’ve given up trying to do a Roon backup onto a USB plugged into my Mac Mini. It just won’t let me.
The backup is usually imported into a folder on the Mac MIni, but I wanted one on an external drive also.
My question is - can I just copy and paste the latest backup from the Mac Mini onto the USB?
Thanks, Steve
You can copy the RoonBackup folder from the Mini to the USB, but creating a backup on the USB shouldn’t be hard
You wouldn’t thinks so but it was. It kept telling me it wasn’t authorised, there were many suggestions on the forum and I tried them all, but to no avail.
Anyway I’ve copied and pasted the database onto the USB so hopefully that should work.
I can’t see a topic by you on the forum for your problem. Maybe other solutions weren’t applicable to your specific situation. Based on what you wrote now, I can’t really imagine what the problem might be, either, but with more info maybe the forum hive mind can find out.
Don’t copy and paste the database to the USB drive. This isn’t a backup. That’s what I used to do and when my IMac failed, I tried to use the database that I had copied and pasted to my USB drive when setting back up on my new MacBook - it did not work.
He said copy the backup, not copy the database. Copying the existing backup is fine
I think he said “I’ve copied and pasted the database”. But, as long as he did what you said - that would work!
Apologies, I see now that he said two different things. In the first post:
Which would be ok.
In the third post:
Which, if it refers to the database folder, would not be OK - as you rightfully pointed out.
I back up my NAS, the source of my music daily. Although I also backup my Roon database, I’d like to understand why it is advisable to do so. It’s simple to just rebuild the database anew given the time it takes. So it takes a day or so, so what? Please explain. Thanks.
Depends. I have thousands of manual edits in my database to correct metadata errors, so it would not be easy to rebuild.
Plus all of this would be gone:
In addition to your library’s metadata, it also contains any edits you’ve made, your play history, all of your Roon playlists, your favorites, your settings, and more. All of this information is stored in your Roon Database.
Sorry for the confusion, I did copy and paste the backup (not the database), I didn’t realize they were different things.
Glad to know that should work.
You lose your entire history of when things where added to library any manual fixes due to Roon not picking correct versions of albums. I have 7 years of history and changes I don’t want to have to rebuild again.
I didn’t think of History. Thanks!
Some people have spend years making edits to their Roon database. There is no reason not to let Roon do automatic database backups. Mine backs up nightly, weekly, monthly, and quarterly. Why not?
I took a 1TB HDD out of an old computer and bought a powered case on Amazon. It stays plugged into my Nucleus USB.
Why don’t you set up to back up Roon to the NAS before the main audio file BU so then you BU the BU belt and bit of string 