When I’ve tried to force a backup it failed. Or asks me for a folder and offers Dropbox (???)
I get music with no problem! The library is there and still updates if I add or delete music. I love the new updated/upgraded Roon! It really adds substantially to the music experience.
Sometimes I need to manually reinstall the Roon - lately. But not the past few days.
I am pretty IT illiterate! I’m a retired clinical psychologist
The questions here:
Is the problem that my current iPad mini is getting too old?
Is Roon asking also to back-up to something external like a thumb drive?
Am I going senile? (/s)
I am clueless and not even sure if it’s my problem or a software glitch. If I do need a new iPad to control this …. Must I set up everything again? Or does the nucleus remember everything for me if I get a new iPad?
I hope I’ve provided sufficient info to solve this. Something must have changed - if before backups happened with no problem. Till Nov 9th.
This is not urgent as I get music! So I am happy . But Roon is unhappy apparently.
I honestly can’t remember how I even ended up with this USB stick! But I see it’s like a thumb drive looks but with a wire that plugs into the DAC USB Audio.
Is there a way just to replace that stick with another that would hold more memory? Because the idea of trying to put that into my iMac and search for “whatever” seems to me more onerous than if I could just replace the stick as you call it.
Also, does the internal hard drive or memory I put inside the nucleus save things also? I could find what it is by searching Amazon as I got it from them. If that matters.
I live in dread of any IT problems as it puts me into a clueless panic.
What do I purchase? This one must still be functioning as there’s a blue light that goes on and off.
Don’t worry about this. You don’t want to use the internal hard drive you put in the Nucleus for storing backups. Use an external USB drive for storing backups.
You can replace the existing stick with an external USB drive, but you will have to go into Roon’s Settings > Backups pages to tell Roon where to find the new drive for the Backups. If you’re not sure how to do this, just ask, and we’ll walk you through it.
I use a Samsung T5 SSD for my backup device. I see the newer Samsung - T7 500gb External USB at Best Buy for 80.00. It comes with the attachment cable. It should never fill to capacity with your backups scheduled to delete after say 20 copies.
I think that the two of you are talking at cross-purposes here. @Mike_LC is talking about using a Samsung USB drive (which has a cable to plug it into the Nucleus), while you are talking about an as yet unused SanDisk Cruzer USB stick (which plugs directly into the Nucleus).
Personally, I would always choose a Samsung USB drive over the SanDisk Cruzer drive for Roon Backups.
1TB is overkill - 500 GB is more than enough. However, both will work.
If you do get a Samsung, then you will need to tell Roon that you are using a backup device different to what you have been using. Go to Settings > Backups > Scheduled Backups > View > 3 dots > Edit.
Then touch the Browse button and you should see the new Samsung drive listed and selected. Touch “Select this folder” and Roon will create a folder called “RoonBackups” on the drive and use this for Roon Backups.