I’ve tried my best reading all available posts and guides and can’t wrap my head around one aspect - how to get a new Roon NUC box set up with the same music folder and database folder.
What I mean is - I build a new ROCK with two M.2 drives in it, get it up and running and pass the license over. I can remove the 2.5 SSD from my old ROCK and connect it as an external drive to the new ROCK and copy all the music over (so a database file starts to populate). Then, I disconnect the drive and do the same for the database file. Copy it over.
Will rebooting the new ROCK now run without errors and all playlists, album art files I cleaned up, etc. be in affect? Am I back up and running?
The main reason I’m doing this is I have an old NUC7 and 1TB internal 2.5 SSD drive. The drive is getting close to full and a new larger SSD drive is costly enough to want to upgrade all links in the chain.
Thank you for helping to clear this bit up for me,
For your music files, copy them over. No need to take the disc out first, you use the network for that task anyway. If you want to take the disk out, don’t connect it to the new ROCK (slower) - connect it to the PC you control the copy process from.
Thank you. So you can have two ROCKs running but only one has a license? As I am copying the music over, is the ROCK creating a database (that eventually will get overwritten with the ‘restore’ database?
Thanks. It’s nice to know I don’t have to fiddle with the old one until I know the new one is up and running.
So I would recommend you restore a backup first, then stop Roon and copy your music library then start Roon again. You stop Roon from the ROCK’s web administration page.
Got it. I’m assuming stopping the server part of Roon basically freezes changes to the database so everything lines back up after turning it back on. thanks.
It is also a good idea to stop the server when adding albums so that it does not try to identify them as they are loaded . Might help prevent the misidentified or split up albums… it trys to identify partial albums…
I had no idea RAM (and a lesser extent M.2 storage) has gotten so expensive. It definitely increases the cost of building a NUC ROCK. I’ll post when parts arrive and I move forward. Thank you, everyone.
BTW, I’m moving from a NUC 8 i5 mainly because the 1 TB storage drive is almost full. I built it and have had it up and running since Feb 2020.
The first thing mentioned when moving to a new ROCK is to make sure both systems have the most current version available. Does it matter if my old Rock, a Nuc8 i5 is on Version 1, Build 259 and newer hardware will be Version 2?
I’m guessing it doesn’t matter, just that they are both the most current version available for that hardware.
This is about the RoonServer version (currently 2.67 (build 1661)), not the version of RoonOS (the operating system), where original Nucleus runs on RoonOS 1.0 and new ROCK installs on RoonOS 2.1, but this doesn’t matter.
apparently due AI infrastructure builds cornering the market. I had a quote for a new PC which I left a few (6?) months, when I did the build the RAM portion had gone up x4. No idea what SSD prices have done
Similar or worse. When I built my latest, I put in 2 2 TB samsungs and 2 4TB samsung drives and a 16 TB internal WD drives. And 32 GB of the top luxury DDR from Corsair. Cost 1400 for the drives and RAM. Now, for the same parts it is over 4k dollars.
Yes, but I’m at the stage where I’m not sure the current box will last me, but feel the new box will easily last me. And I need something new to tinker with
OK, so now I’m confused. I had no idea that there was a new ROCK OS 2.X version. I just tried to reinstall the OS on my i7 ROCK and it’s still at the 1.0 Build 259 (just like RickInHouston’s). Won’t the “new” ROCK OS install on older NUC builds and why? Reason I am asking is that I’ve thought to get an ASUS 15 Pro or Pro+ NUC to run Roon.
The new RoonOS will install on your older NUC but you have to change the boot method in the BIOS settings before you start the install.
Once you have connected a USB keyboard and a monitor/TV via hdmi, then enter the BIOS setup by pressing the appropriate key (usually ‘F2’ or ‘del’) during startup. In setup, turn UEFI boot on and legacy boot off.
Then you can reinstall RoonOS with the ROCK installer which will reformat the OS SSD and install one of the builds (254 to 259) that support both boot mechanisms.
At this point, you can use the WebUI to ‘reinstall’ RoonOS which will bring it up to build 271 and will also update the Roon Server software to the latest version (2.67). You can confirm that this has happened using the WebUi both by looking at the RoonOS build version or simply by observing the presence of the Tailscale setup option.
Then you can restore your backup and you should be good to go.
