I have a personal music library of 300GB (plus a 50BG or so of HiRes & DSD on a second drive).
I use a Mac Mini M1 as my Roon Core
I want to backup my Roon Database to Dropbox (as it seems like the only cloud service that Roon supports for backups). However, I don’t want to pay for yet another cloud service.
Why does the Roon Backup take up more than 5GB of space? Surely it’s mostly text data?
It also contains (album, artist, genre, …) art (pictures) and (biography, review, …) documents and, I’m sure, things I forgot to mention here. I personally think the pictures are making the biggest part nowadays.
PS: Just because DropBox is the only directly (by Roon) supported cloud service doesn’t mean you as a user can’t use other services by means supported (by other cloud services) or manually.
Please pay attention to the following statement too:
I don’t even bother looking at DropBox therefor. Create a backup locally (at your home) to a local folder, network share or attached USB backup storage device. Take additional measures as you see fit (several sets of USB devices, use desktop PC to configure/use other cloud storage with your local backup, …). If you have/use a NAS, their built-in default backup software is often able to utilize other cloud services too.
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Because you most probably keep different backup versions .
I have 3 backup locations, (local and lan, not in the cloud), and I keep a different number of versions for each of them
If you keep e.g. 10 versions, the amount of data will increase enormously compared to keeping only 3 e.g.
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Thank you. I will ignore Dropbox from now on, it seems pointless. Thanks for your backup advice, I will stick with local backups.
But I still cant understand why it would take up 5GB. Even 1000 images at 1MB each would only be 1GB.
But in the other thread you claim to have 100k albums (alum art), several people usually credited for every album (people pictures), genre pictures, radio station pictures (if used), …
Roon labs also tended to use the biggest pictures they can lay their hands on (4K, 8K, …) no matter the actual image quality (so your average 1MB per picture may be to low).
And just because my gut tells me that pictures are the biggest part, this doesn’t mean that all the rest is negligible in comparison.
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I have less than 1000 albums, I think. Certainty way less than 100k!
Anyway, just curious. I guess it must be mostly images and perhaps pdf booklets and suchlike
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Yeah sorry my bad. The other thread wasn’t from you. I need some bed time.
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No worries!
I don’t understand why anyone would have a personal collection of 100k albums or more!
Isn’t the Dropbox warning about restoring over the internet from the cloud? Dropbox can be set to mirror to the cloud, which would mean restoring was still a local operation.
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They so seem to be way bigger than they need to be. Plex which also stores images, metadata, waveforms and stores video and lots of data for the that only takes up 1.2gb space with same library as Roon. Roon is 6.2gb.
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