Accessing the Roon Database on sonicTransporter

Accessing the Roon Database on sonicTransporter

There are typically two reasons why users need to access their Roon Database on a sonicTransporter:

  1. To create a backup of the database
  2. To move/migrate a database from an existing Roon Server

In this article, we’ll cover how to do this.

Expose the Roon Database

Before you do anything else you must expose the Roon database to a file share.

Be careful! Once the database is exposed it can be deleted or destroyed.

  1. Go to the sonicTransporter web user interface from sonicorbiter.com
  2. Go to Settings > Roon Server
  3. Check Expose Roon Server Database and press Save Changes
Note: Expose Roon Server Database is not required for normal operation.

Access the Roon Database

Once the Roon database is exposed you can get to it from a file share

  1. Go to your network folder and select the sonicTransporter
  2. There will be a new file share called RoonServerDB

Backup the Roon Database

  1. Use a zip program like 7-zip and add all the files from the RoonServerDB to a zip file
  2. Store this file in a safe location

Move a Roon Database to your sonicTransporter

  1. Go into Roon Settings>Storage and remove your watched folders (you should “remove”, as opposed to “disable”)
  2. Stop the Roon Server on your computer
  3. Go into the sonicTransporter and stop your Roon Server (Apps -> Roon Server -> Stop Roon Server)
  4. Delete all the files in the RoonServerDB folder
  5. Copy the Roon Database files over from your computer
  6. If you are going to move your music files to the sonicTransporter do that now.
  7. Start Roon Server on your sonicTranspoerter (Apps -> Roon Server -> Restart Roon Server)
  8. Go into the Roon app an log into the sonicTransporter
  9. Add in your watched folders

Note: If your watched folder are on a NAS you will need to enter your NAS username and password even if you did not need to do this on your PC/MAC.


Information provided by Andrew Gillis, CEO of Small Green Computer

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