Hi Jeremy

A backup from Sooloos will store your files in Sooloos encrypted format that can only be read back by Sooloos, after you have done your initial backup all subsequent backups will only be of files you have added so what is called an incremental backup, people have found the Sooloos backup to be a little unreliable and had to have several goes to get it to complete but you may not have any issues. Also note that if you delete albums from your library they will still exist on your backup and will be restored in the event you need to recover, the only way to avoid this is to do a new full backup.

An export will export the library or part thereof to a format you choose, MP3 or native which is the format it was stored in originally, usually FLAC, you would use this if you were moving to Roon for example.

Another possibility is to clone the disks in your MD600 using an Icybox, this would give you an exact copy of the disk in the event of failure, this is permissible as there is no Meridian IP stored on the disks.

As far as Roon and storing files in separate folders you can achieve much the same in Sooloos by using tags, if you tag all your classical files with 'classsic' blues with 'blues' and so on then you can use focus to look at just one tag or any combination of tags.

Reasons you may want to consider Roon are ongoing development and choice but if you are happy with Sooloos then why change, try a Roon trial and see what you think, plan it for example Server, music, storage before you start the trial.

Russ

Last edited by Ratbert; 2017-01-23 13:31.