I was using an older Windows laptop for my Roon core/server for the past 3 years. The laptop died last month, and I replaced it with a new one. When I got my Roon remote and server to communicate, and was able to listen to music again, I was horrified to see that all of my editing died with the laptop. This included grading every song on 3500 albums (so roughly 35000 songs), creating playlists, and identifying hundreds of ‘unknown artist’ albums and finding their appropriate album covers. This took about 8 weeks of my spare time, and thoroughly enhanced my listening experience… Am I doomed to start from scratch, or does Roon have a backup for my data? Thanks, J
You need to use the Roon backup routine to backup your Roon database. It doesn’t happen until/unless you set it up. Roon - Settings - Backups
It might be possible for you to remove the HD from your old computer and retrieve your Roon database unless it’s the HD that crashed.
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What @Jim_F said. Here’s the help page:
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Thank you very much. This is very helpful. I wish I had looked into this earlier. My local tech support could not access the hard drive but they have referred me to a guy in TX that is supposedly a genius at resurrecting hard drives. $250 flat rate & no charge if he is unsuccessful. I will mail it off today.
It’s a bit more complicated than that, if you’ve used bitlocker on the old laptop I hope you backed up the encryption key?
You don’t backup to the cloud at all, everything was on the hard drive only?