Oh Sh*t - UServe

Posted by: Obsessed1 on 12 February 2012

After faithfully feeding my 1TB Serve approx 250 discs, apparently Wolves in the Throne Room's Celestial Lineage was too much.  I was greeted with the low rumble followed by "click - dzzzzzzzz".  Never bothered to back the darned thing up.  Hope Naim HQ are up do the task of recovering the ripped stuff.  If I have to rip them all again it could be the most depressing birthday ever.

 

Posted on: 13 February 2012 by jobseeker

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !

 

The first thing I did when I bought my Vortexbox was to buy a matching 2Tb USB Hard Drive, to back-up each time I rip. The peace-of-mind is well worth the sub-£100 cost. Of course, many people would say that a single back-up is by no means enough.

 

I guess you'll be getting something now - my condolences anyway.

Posted on: 13 February 2012 by mudwolf

Yeah I've been warned about backing up.  Tho I still have the problem of albums disappearing from iTunes, I know several favorites were on but I only find one of a performer.  This happened with Joni, U2, Emmylou Harris, Los Lobos.

 

I haven't stopped ripping yet so I need to be organized in it all

Posted on: 13 February 2012 by winkyincanada
Originally Posted by mudwolf:

...I still have the problem of albums disappearing from iTunes, I know several favorites were on but I only find one of a performer.......

If you look in Finder (on a mac), you might find some single artist albums get stored in the "compilations" folders, rather than by artist. I think it happens when at least one track has a stupid "feat. ????" tag on it. The iTunes library organisation is fine (for me, at least) though once the album artist is entered for these types of albums.

Posted on: 13 February 2012 by Bart

Ive got a very kludgy backup system, but it works.  I use Silverkeeper (free) to copy files from the uServe to my Time Capsule.  Like I said, it works.

Posted on: 13 February 2012 by winkyincanada
Originally Posted by Bart:

Ive got a very kludgy backup system, but it works.  I use Silverkeeper (free) to copy files from the uServe to my Time Capsule.  Like I said, it works.

I just use Time Machine. Works fine.

Posted on: 13 February 2012 by Obsessed1

I have time machine to back-up the Mac, but is there some idiot-proof way to back-up a UServe that takes no technical know-how?

Posted on: 15 February 2012 by KRM

I back-up the UnitiServe to a Readynas Duo every night, which is too often really. I also use the Duo to do ad hoc back-ups to a 1tb USB drive. I would keep it offsite but I can't be bothered. I use the NAS to control the back-ups because the functionality didn't exist on the UServe when I set it all up. 

 

The only problem I have is that the differential back-ups don't delete. This means that if I make manual changes to artist or album details a new file is created in addition to the existing one, so I occasionally do full back-ups.

 

Keith

Posted on: 15 February 2012 by Bart
Originally Posted by winkyincanada:
Originally Posted by Bart:

Ive got a very kludgy backup system, but it works.  I use Silverkeeper (free) to copy files from the uServe to my Time Capsule.  Like I said, it works.

I just use Time Machine. Works fine.

I thought I tried to get Time Machine to see my uServe on the network, but maybe I missed something.  I'm sure I did -- I recall not being able to get Time Machine to back up anything other than my Mac.  There must be a setting I missed so that Time Machine will back up a network drive (uServe) to the Time Capsule.