m1abrams;575477 Wrote: > I understand people who just want a single player not wanting to deal > with a separate server. What I do not understand is people who want > multiple devices sharing the same library and not wanting a dedicated > music server. When you start getting 100s of gigs of music, what is > your backup plan for that data. The touch does not provide any good > means to backup the data, sure you can access it via SMB shares but I > can not imagine what trying to backup 100s of gigs through that would > do to that little cpu. > > FYI- I would not consider the CDs store in a box as a backup, but more > as a last ditch crap I have to spend the next year restoring my music. You're right that you need a backup, and that the CDs themselves are only a last resort, because for most of us a lot of time went into ripping and tagging the library. Drives are too cheap and time too dear to rip and tag all over again.
But I don't see why using TinySBS instead of a dedicated external server (pc or NAS) is any obstacle to doing backups. If you don't want to do it via SMB shares, just temporarily disconnect the USB drive from the Touch and connect it to a PC. Besides, I doubt anyone is ripping directly to a Touch-attached drive, so it's more a question of moving the files from the pc to a backup drive, rather than from the Touch-attached drive to a backup drive. There are a lot of good reasons to prefer a dedicated music server, but I don't see ease of backup as one of them. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81784 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
