Hi, I have setup a Dropbox to backup my Roon library. I understand that this is not for backing up actual media, only metadata and playlists etc. so don’t expect requirements to be large. In fact I mainly use Roon to stream Qobuz, have very limited actual media on a USB drive connected to it, only 400 or so albums, 1500 songs.
This backup is now over 2.2GB! and Dropbox is bothering me to upgrade. What’s the deal here? It shouldn’t need to be very big. It only needs to backup the ‘structure’ and details about my library.
I have a Roon core on my laptop with 20 backups using 6GB. I have 3000 linked albums from Tidal and Qobuz. My Nucleus is backed up to a USB HDD with 11 backups using a little over 3GB with the same 3000 linked albums.
So, Do i possibly have numerous backups (essentially of the same thing?). How would i find out how many backups are there? I can see i have 9500 items. These are mainly foders like aa ab ac d3 d4 etc, most empty, some with single bin files in
Mine looks a little different, see a few screen grabs attached. I cant work out the structure, but from a brief look there are hundreds of folders and subfolder, most empty but some with single files ranging from 2.1MB files to 70kB. I do have the option of reducing the amount of backups but like it says they do not take up much room. Normal backup systems just log deltas on a log time scale, ie everyday last week, every 7days month before that etc. Crazy how big this database is. Maybe i should just delete and start again?
I would lower the number of Backups that you keep from 10 to say 5. That should keep your Dropbox usage within limits.
You will need to delete some of your existing Backups. Rather than diving into the black box of the Backups and deleting randomly named files, use the cleanup mechanisn of Roon.
On your Scheduled Backups screen, click the “3 dots” menu and choose the “Clean/restore” option. That will display all your Backups, and you can delete those that you no longer want. to keep.
Actual media is not the only driving factor. Every album added to the library from streaming services costs the same in database space. So 400 local albums and 1000 streaming albums in your library equals 1400 albums in terms of database usage.
So how many albums have you added from streaming services?
Thanks for your help, I am down to 3 backups only now, deleted the old and down to 1.45GB, so not being pestered for updating my Dropbox account any more! Still seems crazy to be this size when I only have 300 album, 1500 songs in my playlists
I’ve got 1200 albums (Streaming and Local) totalling about 15000 songs, keep 10 backups in Dropbox, and my Dropbox “RoonBackups” folder size is 1.86GB so yeah, something seems to be off with yours
