HDX Back-Up Copy to Network Share Query

Posted by: GraemeH on 31 December 2013

Probably being thick here but......

 

I've a Western Digital MyBook Live which I back-up my HDX to. I've also created a network share in a separate folder which I can stream from. Having just done a fresh back-up adding 20 or so new albums to the back-up folder how do I update the network share folder differentially? I tried 'Copy All' from the back-up folder then 'paste' into the network share hoping it would say something about most of the files already existing (in the share) and giving an option to copy only the new albums across from the back-up but it does not seem to want to do this as it says '19 hours remaining' which suggests it is copying the lot again.

 

I don't recall which 20 albums to do them individually.

 

Am I missing a trick?

 

Thanks a lot.

 

G

Posted on: 31 December 2013 by Bart

G I am not quite sure what you're trying to do.  Why do you want to ad files from the Backup to the Share??  Presumably the music in the Backup is also in the Store, and you can stream from there.  I'm not sure why you'd want the same music in both the Store and a Share . . . but let me know what you're tying to do!

 

Happy New Year!

 

~Bart

 

 

 

Posted on: 31 December 2013 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Bart:

G I am not quite sure what you're trying to do.  Why do you want to ad files from the Backup to the Share??  Presumably the music in the Backup is also in the Store, and you can stream from there.  I'm not sure why you'd want the same music in both the Store and a Share . . . but let me know what you're tying to do!

 

Happy New Year!

 

~Bart

 

 

 

Hi Bart

 

I didn't think the HDX back-up could be a store to stream from and so have created another folder copying the back-up folder but making it a 'music' folder, from which I stream.  This 'music' folder needs updated to match the back-up.

 

If the back-up can be the streaming folder too that would make life a whole lot easier.

 

Thanks

 

G

Posted on: 31 December 2013 by Bart

I don't think that you can serve music from the Backup either, but the Backup is a backup of music that you can already serve . . it's a backup of what's in the main Store.  The only music that should end up in the Backup is stuff already in the Store by my estimation.  Maybe I'm missing something!

Posted on: 31 December 2013 by GraemeH
Originally Posted by Bart:

I don't think that you can serve music from the Backup either, but the Backup is a backup of music that you can already serve . . it's a backup of what's in the main Store.  The only music that should end up in the Backup is stuff already in the Store by my estimation.  Maybe I'm missing something!

....and the main store is the hard drive of the HDX.  This is then backed-up to the 3TB NAS as 'HDX Back-Up', which is not stream-able, therefor a new stream-able 'share' has been created on the NAS which mirrored the back-up, and now needs updated with the new albums I've accumulated.

 

I have a horrible feeling I'm making a mountain out of a molehill.........G

Posted on: 31 December 2013 by Bart

Maybe what you really want to do is incrementally back up that Backup? Or do you already have the HDX set up to do that daily?

 

By my logic, a share that contains what's in the Backup would by definition also contain what's in the hard drive Store.  And I'm not sure why you'd want a share that duplicates what's in the Store. 

 

As you add new cd rips to the Store, the HDX each night should be adding those to the Backup by doing a nightly incremental backup.  What I do is copy the backup over to a usb drive, so that I have a backup of the Backup.  That satisfies my ocdedness   We all have our demons however

Posted on: 31 December 2013 by GraemeH

Problem solved!

 

'Copy all' and 'Paste' is indeed all I have to do.  It starts copying the last ripped cd's first and only when it gets through those does it identify that other files are indeed potential duplicates. Up until that point it still tells me it is going to take 19hrs. You then get the option to 'skip' all potential duplicates and it quits immediately, putting the new folders in the right order.

 

Phew!

 

G

Posted on: 31 December 2013 by Bart

I'm not leaving this thread 'til you tell me why you want your Backup contents in a share