Best Way to Back up Music Library

[Loop4fun]

Speaking of human error, I really screwed up my database a couple of weeks ago by accidentally moving rather than copying files from my Synology NAS to an external USB drive (Lumin L1) for backup. I caught it about 2/3 of the way through, but it was too late, and I ended up with a mess of two or three music folders of everything. I just didn't know where to start, as getting rid of all the duplicates was a huge job.

Thankfully, I had installed Amazon Glacier and had backed all my files to their server. It is very inexpensive to store, but costly to restore. It's not a program for frequent retrieval.

Anyway, I moved all the files off the NAS and restored everything from the prior week's backup from Glacier. It took about 4 days and cost about $300, but worked 100% as advertised. The Glacier package is available on Synology, easy to install, and the $300 was money well spent. I never thought I would have a need to restore from this site.