I recently purchased a Roon Nucleus. I was previously using my laptop to run Roon. I was just dabbling, and I only use streaming through Tidal, so there wasn’t much of a library to backup and I didn’t bother bringing anything over to the Nucleus. I wanted to start fresh.
I have now been using the Nucleus for a couple of days now and would like to back up my library. How do I do it? Can I only backup on something connected to the USB port? I’d rather backup to a OneDrive directory that I have in my regular account on my laptop.
I’m not very savvy with computer networks, so I’m not sure how to:
make my laptop (OneDrive) directory accessible to the Nucleus
how to point Roon to the right directory. I have gone to “Backups” under “Settings” and selected “Backup Now”. Then, under “Manual Backup” I chose “select location” . I’m thinking my answer might be in the “+add network share” function, but I don’t know where to start to connect to my laptop directory.
Am I on the right track? Is there a way to save my backup to my OneDrive directory through my laptop and do you have any information that can help me figure out how to configure it?
You will need to setup a shared folder on your laptop first, and then use the network address in Roon as the network location for Roon’s database backup. See here for setting up your shared folder on your laptop:
Then setup your scheduled backup - see here:
If your shared folder is a folder in the local OneDrive folder hierarchy on your laptop, then the content of the folder will also be synchronised with your OneDrive in the cloud. For example, on my Windows PC I have a folder with the path:
F:\Users\Geoff\OneDrive\Roon Database Backup
I’ve made this a Shared Folder, so that I can add it as a Backup location in Roon. It’s on the PC called Morisot, so the Network Share Location in Roon is:
What @Geoff_Coupe describes will backup the all important Roon database.
If you’re now keeping media content on your Nucleus - you should also make sure you have that backed up to. There is nothing built in to Nucleus to do this.
I keep my media master elsewhere (and back-it up using the backup software for that machine) and copy it onto the Nucleus using a sync utility. But there any many different ways to work.
Thanks Greg. I’m not keeping media on a hard drive at this point - just streaming. But I appreciate your comments and will keep in mind going forward should I go down this road in the future.