I am trying to set up my backup schedule as conveniently as possible. When the backups need to be made, the server with Roon must be running, Roon must not be in use for playback and my both servers has to be active. Unfortunately, setting the schedule does not work. The backups are made at random times if possible, otherwise I get a warning that Roon could not make a backup at that random time.
In contrast, forced backups always succeed.
For my other digital backups, I use a backup program that is fully configurable and runs virtually flawlessly; if an error occurs, the cause is always easy to trace and always turns out to be my own fault, such as insufficient disk space or the drive letter being changed in Windows.
This program asks what needs to be backed up and to where, which is also possible with Roon.
This program asks on which day and at what time, down to the minute, and with what repetition, which is hardly possible with Roon. You cannot specify a day or a time down to the minute. You can only specify which repetition you choose, but that is useless if you do not know the start date. In my case, it is becoming a mess. I really don’t know when Roon is going to make backups, despite the schedule.
What am I doing wrong or overlooking, and is there perhaps a possibility to have this database backup handled by another, more convenient backup program?
My audiopeak is a PC with Roon installed and with two back-up destinations, one intern and one extern. The third destination is my QNAP NAS and is always active. All the last sucsessful backups where forced.
Not sure exactly why this is happening, but I would recommend not scheduling all your backups at such similar times.
Spread out the backups to different days and hours. I don’t think it’s possible for all three of these backups to happen simultaneously (or within an hour, if the other backup is still ongoing). So that might be causing the backlog.
These are on a home PC as well, which I assume is used for other things?
Try spacing out the backup times and doing them when you aren’t likely to be using the PC (like in the middle of the night).
Something like this?
Some more information about the problem:
The audiopeak is a PC/Linux/Debian server only for Roon and HQPlayer on their own M2-drive with a music library (4T) and a folder for database back-up on a fast M2-drive. The first scheduled back-up is done within a minute, the second one within two minutes. The third scheduled backup needs 5 minutes to do the job and is a QNAP NAS.
I think the big problem is that you can not choose the start date: I want to make the first scheduled back-up every Monday at 10am, the second every Monday 9am and the third every Thursday 11am. But that’s impossible. You can’t chose a special day.
It would be nice if Roon makes this possible.
So in my case, I have a 7-days recurring backup, and a daily recurring backup.
The last time the 7-days recurring backup was running on May 31st. Normally the next backup would run on June 7th. If I would force a backup today June 4th, the next one would be running on June 11th.
And unfortunately no, you cannot schedule a backup an a fixed day in the week.
Why are you doing them at 9-11 in the morning? Surely this is when you are likely to be using the PC? Not the best time.
Leave your PC on over night. Schedule the backups every 3 days, 5 days, and 7 days or something like that for maximum separation, and at 2am when you aren’t using your machine for anything else.
I would also recommend having at least one very regular backup (daily) to an online service, like Dropbox, for maximum security.
I don’t think you need 5 backups in each location. Maybe 2 or 3 is enough, especially if they are spaced closer together. There is little point keeping 3 copies of backups from 5 weeks ago imho.
