Reconnecting Unitiserve to back-up

Posted by: MartinCA on 24 May 2015

I recently had my US serviced by Naim, and the HD was replaced by a 2tb drive.  All's good now it's back, except that I can't reconnect it to the backup store on my NAS. 

 

I've spoken to Naim support, and in the end, they will do remote access to my PC/US to put this right - except I am away from home during working hours.  Apparently this is because of the change of drive. 

 

Anyone got a DIY solution to this that I can try? 

 

 

Posted on: 29 June 2015 by Phil Harris

A music store is registered to the server that created it but you can take over a music store from a different server if you wish.

 

The physical drives however are registered to the machine itself.

 

Phil

Posted on: 29 June 2015 by MartinCA

Just to repeat what I said in my notes above, everything is now working for me as I think it should be working - so it doesn't appear that I have broken anything.

 

The core of the problem, and the advice I was seeking, related to reattaching the US with the replacement HD to the old back-up.  And it appears that you shouldn't be able to do that.  I did manage to achieve that, but I certainly wouldn't recommend this if it is not what is supposed to happen.

 

The MM discussion started off as a side issue - I mentioned it because I didn't want to lose all the cataloguing and metadata edits done by MM on the BackUp music which I thought I might have to regenerate. This rang alarm bells in your mind, Phil, because you had visions of MM cheerfully changing the back-up data.  But in fact, unless you force it to, MM doesn't edit (the back-up) files, any more than the US edits network shares.

 

That's something we should had checked out at the outset, perhaps.