Hi, All.
If this has been previously addresses please point me in the right direction.
Essentially, I am starting a new Roon Server. I have the Roon Data from the old server but they are not an official Roon backup they are more like a manual back up described here:
How do I perform the restore with a manual backup?
Many thanks in advance.
“More like a manual back-up” will not work. If it is an actual Roon back-up done using the official Roon back-up protocol, put it on a USB drive or flash drive and plug that into your new Roon server and do a Roon restore of the backup. The fact that you did it manually using the Roon backup procedure is immaterial. It should work.
Install Roon on the new server before you try to restore the backup.
Manual backups like described are not the suggested way of doing a backup. In fact, if you read the banner at the top, Roon warns against doing them.
To restore them, you would install RoonServer on a new PC. Make sure the new server isn’t running. Navigate to the file location, rename the Roon folder to something like RoonServer_old, and then copy the folder you backed up to replace it.
Given that I’m not sure what you actually backed up, I can’t be more specific.
Just to set expectations clearly: restoring from a manual backup is strongly discouraged. Manual backups can easily result in latent database corruption, even if everything appears to work at first, and in those cases we may not be able to assist with recovery if issues surface later.
The only fully supported and reliable way to back up and restore a Roon Server is by using Roon’s built-in backup mechanism. If at all possible, we strongly recommend restoring your old server, creating an official Roon backup, and then restoring that backup onto the new server.
While it may be technically possible to copy a manually backed-up Roon database into place, this is considered an advanced, unsupported procedure and carries real risk. For long-term stability and supportability, the built-in backup tool is the safest path forward.
Thanks for your responses. I completely agree this is not the way to go. My NAS crashed and this was the only way for me to get any kind of backup.
I am going to try what Rugby suggested. See how far I can get. Logically, replacing those folders should work but I am sure the software will balk at that attempt.
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