Unable to Back Up Roon to External Hard Drive (ref#Y7AF8K)

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Hi! What’s not quite right with Roon?

· None of the above quite fits

None of the above quite fits

· None of these quite match

Tell us what's going on

· I can't figure out how to make Roon back up to my external hard drive.

Tell us about your home network

· I have a PC with an external hard drive. My Roon core is connected with a network switch to my PC. I run Roon on an iPad.

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Welcome to the forum and its Support area.

You have to set up file sharing on Windows to share the external drive on the network, similar to here:

Instead of adding this shared drive as a watched folder as described in the above link, add it as a network storage in Roon > Settings > Backup:

It may be easier to simply plug an external USB drive into the Nucleus/ROCK. (I suppose you mean a Nucleus or ROCK when you say “Roon Core”)

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I was unable to figure out how to use a file share name and path to get Roon to back up to an external hard drive. Therefore, I used the suggested easier method of plugging a USB drive into the back of my Innuos Zen Mini Mark III, which I use as a ROCK. The backup worked well. Thank you, Suedkiez!

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Hi @jrdavisphd,

Glad to hear you were able to solve it. Thanks for confirming that the USB backup worked well, and we’ll go ahead and close this one out. Enjoy your music!