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Description Of Issue
Before moving to the Nucleus, I did a backup on my laptop (which was my previous Roon Core), and a usb attached HDD.
I attached the HDD via USB to the Nucleus.
I choose database restore, and browsed to the directory of the backups, but I get the message : no backups found, please check your backup location.
Thanks for sharing that screenshot. It appears that you are missing the Roon Backup Root file in that screenshot. How did you perform the backup on the Laptop? Did you use Roon to create it or was it already created and you only copied it over? I would suggest connecting the drive to the laptop again and use Roon’s Backup manager to create the backup if you simply copy + pasted the folder over. Can you give that a try and let me know if it helps?
To create the backups, I used Roon. When Roon asked for the location, I browsed in Roon to the Seagate HDD. Roon created the folder with long string of numbers and letters. I did the same on my laptop, to have two backups in case one failed.
When I got the error message to restore, I used my laptop to create a RoonBackups folder on the Seagate, and I copied the above mentioned directory created by Roon in that folder. I tried a restore from that, but got the same error message.
I also tried to restore from the laptop backup, but got some other error messages (something like folder not authorized).
So in a nutshell, I already did what you suggested because I used Roon’s backup manager to create the Seagate and laptop backups.
This really annoying because I have been using Roon for several years, and would really like to keep my database in this transition to Nucleus. As a side note, I will probably return the demo Nucleus and buy a Nucleus + because my Roon library is around 11 000 albums and 170 000 tracks and growing.
I appreciate your help and really hope you can help me restore all that accumulated Roon history.
How is your HDD formatted, are you using NTFS, FAT32, or exFAT? I think you may have saved the Laptop (Roon created) backup on the drive’s root folder which may cause some issues with restoring. Let’s try this:
Connect the HDD to your laptop again
Create a new folder on your hard drive called “Roon Backups Laptop”
Use Roon’s backup manager to point to that folder and save a new backup
Disconnect the HDD and connect it to the Nucleus again
Point Roon’s backup manager to restore the newly created “Roon Backup Folder”
