Viragored wrote: > I have put my LMS cache on the SD card so that I can back up the whole > card on my PC. I'm a bit of an enthusiast for backup copies of valuable > stuff. And recently I was pleased to be able to restore from PC to SD > card with a fully working and only slightly out of date LMS. I never did > find out what caused the RPi to crash and corrupt its SD card, but the > same card is still chugging on. The SD card has been home to the cache > for several months now, running 24/7 and has been reliable except for > that one crash. > > My RPi file system is also expanded to the card's full 8GB, after my > eventually working out that the problems I was experiencing during LMS > scans were caused by LMS needing a bit more than the storage that was > then available (IIRC, that was 2GB at the time). The minor downside is > that backing up the card takes rather longer than it did - possibly a > bit under 30 minutes.
The only data on the SD card worth backing up (assuming the music files are on another drive) is the CACHE and the piCore backup on /mnt/mmcblk0p2/tce/mydata.tgz. I do a backup of these files to the drive I have my music files. This can be automated with rsync and cron Tony  SBTouch ♪ SBRadio ♬ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tony T's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34544 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111787 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
