"No backups found" attempting to restore to DietPi NUC install. Backup originally created on ROCK.
I have moved from ROCK to DietPi (v9.18) roon server on the same hardware (NUC10i3). The DietPi install of roon is v2.56 (build 1582). The original backup from ROCK may have been roon v2.55 (build 1559).
Whenever I have attempted to restore the backup, I continually face "no backups found" message.
Things I have tried: -- moving the location of the backup -- copying the backup to a new location -- checking permissions and "chmod -R 777" as a final resort
Still no luck in being able to restore. The backup files appear to be "just there" :) Any assistance in unblocking this restore is greatly appreciated.
Describe your network setup
Hardware: Intel NUC10i3, ethernet to router (Synology).
The “No backups found” message typically means that Roon Server cannot read or recognize the backup structure in the location you’re pointing to — even if the files are physically there. Let’s check a few things:
Make sure you’re selecting the correct folder level.
When choosing the backup location in the restore wizard, make sure you select the parent folder that contains the roon_backupt file.
For example, if your backup is in:
/mnt/roonbackups/RoonBackups/
then select /mnt/roonbackups/RoonBackups, not the folder above or below it.
2. Verify file structure and permissions.
The correct backup folder should include several subfolders like 2d3f45ef-... and a _roon_backup_root_t file. Could you please confirm that your backup location looks like this?
Also, ensure that the user running Roon Server (usually roonserver in DietPi) has read access to that directory:
Try mounting the backup locally.
If the backup resides on a network share (e.g. NAS), temporarily copy it to a local path on the NUC — for example /var/roonbackups/RoonBackups — and try restoring from there.
Version compatibility.
A backup made on build 1559 should restore fine on build 1582 — there’s no incompatibility between these two versions.
If possible, please share:
The exact path where your backup is stored
A quick ls -la output of that folder
We’ll review it and confirm whether the backup structure is being detected properly.
This looks like it’s possibly a nested target folder issue.
The restore path Roon expects is the parent directory, /mnt/dietpi_userdata, not /mnt/dietpi_userdata/RoonBackups.
The screenshot from the Backups screen you’ve shared shows you’re likely one level too deep. The roon_backup_root file is a marker — it tells Roon “this directory contains one or more backup sets.” So when you point Roon at /mnt/dietpi_userdata/RoonBackups, it looks inside that folder for yet another roon_backup_root, doesn’t find one, and reports “no backups found.”
When Roon says “Choose folder that contains your backup,” you should instead pick the parent directory, not the …/RoonBackups nested folder.
/mnt/dietpi_userdata
Roon should then see the roon_backup_root marker and show your list of available Backups.
Please let us know if this helps or if you’re still having issues.
I don’t recall if I installed as root or dietpi but the group “root” is on the roonserver dir, so likely root. However, Roon is running under the user roonserver.
I can reinstall. Any suggestions to ensure it’s a clean install path eg. as dietpi user?
Update 1. root / dietpi reinstallation (using dietpi install)
Based on guidance to make sure things are owned either by root or dietpi, I have done two re-installations under both root and dietpi users. Unfortunately, the same outcome happened in both cases.
Update 2. Installing via linuxx64.sh @benjamin the location of the script you reference has moved (got a 301), so need to ensure we do curl -O -L. After downloading, it executes with the following outcome:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>NoSuchKeyThe specified key does not exist.No such object: download-assets/builds/RoonServer_linuxx64.sh
I’m currently attempting to install via the linux instructions here and will be running the easy installer method as root, maintaining all defaults.
