rgro wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I'll start here. > I'm totally new to the Pi/Linux world with no code or programming > experience. Nonetheless, thanks in great part to the excellent > piCorePlayer "how to", I've just managed to get an RPI4 up and running > with LMS as my new music server---replacing a microjukebox/vortexbox > from Small Green Computer. I also have two RPI4 Pi's operating solely > as Squeezelite players which are now happily connected to the LMS server > and all is running just fine. > > So, on the Pi/LMS server, I have a 1tb SSD connected to one of the USB > ports. That SSD was formatted, per the instructions, as EXT4 and I then > transferred all of my music files from the spinning hard drive in the > microjukebox to the SSD over my home network (bit of a lengthy > process!). > > Now, I would like to be able to easily make backups. I have a couple of > 1tb Western Digital external MyPassport USB hard drives laying around > and figured to use one of those to backup the SSD. So, I have a couple > questions for the experts here: > > 1. To start, what is the fastest/best way to backup the entire SSD > contents to the MyPassport? Do I need to reformat the MyPassport to > EXT4, first? > > 2. After that's done, I would like to be able to easily back up just > the changed or newly added music files from the SSD to the HD. I'm > planning to leave the Pi/LMS server on 24/7 and my preference is not to > leave the HD powered on 24/7, too. I'd like to be able to just plug the > HD into the second USB port of the Pi (without having to turn the Pi off > and on again) and have it run some sort of automated process to back up > the new/changed files from the SSD, but don't know if that's possible > and, if so, how to make that happen. > > Alternative #1: it'd also be workable to plug the MyPassport HD into my > Windows computer and, somehow (no idea how) have my Windows computer > find the SSD on the Pi and then back up new/changed files over the > network to the MyPassport HD that is plugged into my Windows computer. > > Alternative #2: people much cleverer than I, no doubt, have already > figured out an even better way to do all this. If so, please give this > very low-tech newbie, a step-by-step how to. I'm pretty good at > following directions and I do know how to open a Putty session. > > Thanks in advance for any assistance!
Alrernative #1 - Install SAMBA on the pCP (LMS page > Setup Samba Share) and use a backup programme such as freefilesync to backup one drive to the other over your network. *Server - LMS 8.2.0 *Pi4B 4GB/Flirc case/pCP v7.0.0 - 74K library, playlists & LMS cache on SSD (ntfs) *Study -* Pi3B/pCP 7.0.0b6/pi screen/Allo Boss DAC Ruark MR1 Mk2 *Lounge* - Pi2/pCP 6.0.0 > HiFiBerry DIGI+ > AudioEngine DAC1 > AVI DM5 *Garage* - Squeezebox Boom + Fostex sub *Dining Room* - Pi3B/Bluetooth/Echo Show 8 *Spares* - 2xTouch, 1xSB Radio. 1xSB3, 6xRPi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113561 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
