# Invalid Root making backups impossible to recover **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [April 20, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/invalid-root-making-backups-impossible-to-recover/199379 "2022-04-20T14:42:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derk\_Broos](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/derk_broos/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Derk\_Broos](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Derk_Broos)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/invalid-root-making-backups-impossible-to-recover/199379/1 "2022-04-20T14:42:02Z")
Hi, I’m playing on an Antipodes K50 musicserver/streamer. Before the server is an Ansuz Acoustics X-TC network switch which is connected directly to the modem/router. Normally after updating the Antipodes server, Roon sees it as a different server so i have to log in again and put back my Roon back-up. I never had any problems with making & putting back back-ups. The Roon back-ups go to a folder i have made myself in the storage \> music folder. So it’s on the SSD’s in the back of the K50, the same location where the music is located but in a separate folder. I have always done it like this. After making a back-up, i make a folder and name it the day i made it & then Roon Back-Up. For instance : “2022-01-28 Roon Back-Up” And then i put the back-up in that folder so i can see the date of when the back-up has been made. The name of the main back-up folder remains unchanged. But since the last V3.13 update from Antipodes, i can’t put back my Roon back-up anymore. I have 4 back-ups, none of them work. I have tried copying one of the back ups to a new folder to see what that does, and Roon simply says : “No back-ups found, check the back-up folder and try again” With the original 4 back-ups Roon says this strange message (i’m translating it from Dutch to English myself so Roon may put it slightly differently) : “An error occured with finding the back-up list (InvalidRoot). Check the folder of your back-up and try again” What am i supposed to do? I have added a lot of Tidal albums to my library and made a lot of Tags & Playlists, i don’t want them to be lost because of some unexplainable back-up fault. I have made a screenshot of the message in Dutch i get when trying to make a back-up in the way that always worked before. ![InvalidRoot](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/3X/0/d/0d257adf6881a56490563f445f37de7ec2ca6e86.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ged\_hickman1](https://community.roonlabs.com/user_avatar/community.roonlabs.com/ged_hickman1/32/259791_2.png) [@ged\_hickman1](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/ged_hickman1)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/invalid-root-making-backups-impossible-to-recover/199379/2 "2022-04-22T07:05:11Z")
There are a few previous postings about root error see if this applies > [@Roon Backup Not Restoring](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/roon-backup-not-restoring/53034/5): > > Hello @Mahab_Khatib, I wanted to check in here with you and see if you were able to create a fresh backup by re-authorizing your iMac. If you have not yet had a chance to do so or if something went wrong with creating a fresh backup, I may have an alternate solution as proposed by our QA team. Can you please post a screenshot of the backup directory listing? This listing should look something like this: Inside this listing there should be a \_roon\_backup\_ file towards the end of the … ---
**Author:** ![Derk\_Broos](https://community.roonlabs.com/letter_avatar/derk_broos/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@Derk\_Broos](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/Derk_Broos)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/invalid-root-making-backups-impossible-to-recover/199379/3 "2022-04-23T11:46:14Z")
Hi Ged, Thanks for your answer, but i have made another backup now and it works, it’s just that the older backups (which i need) are not accessible. All of my backups look right and have the roon backup file at the end of the list. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://roon-community-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/original/3X/d/e/deefbd9083c99c82bbf2dd3f873f52a49f5db881.png) [@system](https://community.roonlabs.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.roonlabs.com/t/invalid-root-making-backups-impossible-to-recover/199379/4 "2022-04-27T19:38:08Z")
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