I recently added a pile of albums to my Roon library.
I noticed that soon after Roon started analysing and indexing for several hours.
The next day I noticed that instead of showing newly added albums in recent activity/added all the albums showing were from albums added to Roon years ago rather as labeled as ‘added today’.
Somehow my database was screwed up.
I decided to restore a recent Roon backup which I found on a USB.
When I tried to restore the backup I received an error message:
No backups found, please check your backup location.
On the USB there is a folder called RoonBackups,
inside that folder is a folder called ecc92cf9-42f0-3849-612a-89ad7f6da7da
with numerous folders.
There is also a file called Roon_backup_root
I’ve tried to restore using all 3 files and folders but none of the work.
It has to work if you have any backups in the RoonBackups folder. At least, you should find them. That doesn’t mean the backup itself will work if something is wrong with it.
The only thing I can think of is that I was using my laptop for the restore rather than my mini where the core is situated. Could that be the cause of the issue of not finding the backup?
I can think of two potential issues. First of all, you have two Roon servers, one on your laptop and one on your Mac Mini. Also, you could/can back up either of these to any attached location. You need to be using the server you want to restore and find the back up wherever you put it. You can restore a backup from one to the other if you so desire. It should not matter what Roon client you are using to do this, ie. laptop, phone, tablet, etc.
Unfortunately I have had this same issue before. I can see the backup files but no matter where I look to restore or view/find backups it will not find anything. It generally affects a particular source so after a few backups I always do a test restore to make sure the source is working properly.
From my experience once I verify a backup source is working properly by testing it always works properly. If it is not going to work it doesn’t work from the first backup. So testing is critical.
Not the answer you are looking for but hope this helps.
I am having a problem restoring from a previous backup. I just switched my Roon account from a 1 year account to a lifetime account. Then I used the restore from previous backup feature. The restore was complete, all the Roon settings were restored as before, but the playlist information was completely gone. I have used the restore from backup feature before and everything was fine, but this time it is not the same. Is there any way I can restore my playlist from the backup. Thanks.
