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!
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!