Redrum wrote: > I personally would avoid storing them on the same SD as pcP unless > backed up (In case SD becomes corrupted). > ... > <edit, I just saw Howards suggestion and your reply. I would encourage > you to look into the samba option on pcP, and applications like > freefilesync or similar. The whole backup, file mirroring is a single > click operation, or you can schedule it to automatically occur. > ... > One other thing to keep in mind is where you keep your LMS data > (probably currently on your SD). You can keep it there, create a third > partition for it, or move it to your external thumb or other drive. Then > use Samba to access it to back it up. I don't backup all of it, just my > favorites, podcasts lists, etc in case the SD bricks and you have to > rebuild. While I'm on that, pcP has a utility to create an image of your > SD. I would encourage you to do it just in case.> Thank you Jim and Howard! I now have all my Music on a USB key, mounted and indexed, and shared via Samba. I even brought over my playlists...last touched in 2011! I guess I've been running Pandora (and Spotty) for longer than I remembered.
Backing up the pCP...I will take a look at that...I definitely understand the scenario :). Machine backups was my first use case for Windows Home Server back in 2005 or so...and I am STILL backing up my server to (now) AWS Glacier using CloudBerry Bare Metal. So machine backups are gone, I turned off Blue Iris in favor of XFinity monitoring, now my LMS is off...as soon as I get HomeSeer moved to a HS4-Pi I can put let go that server. Thinking of WHS made be remember when I took that circa 2005 HP WHS box literally out of my trash bin and set it up to run Blue Iris for the shared areas at a ranch community on the other side of the mountains where we have a lot. That box ran another 5 years or so until I replaced it a few years back with a NUC. I've always been a Windows guy - I was a developer on Win95 (and later .NET) back in the day - but I'm super impressed with the value proposition and community support around RPi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ centerisl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62445 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114828 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
