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    Backing up ROMs from mounted USB drive directly to mapped network drive

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      alpinemonkey
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      Hi - I'm a noob so go easy!

      Setup is:
      Pi4 running downloaded image direct from website (latest version 2 days ago)
      Canakit power supply

      I'm running the image on my SD card, but have a USB mounted which all my ROMs will run on. (I'm not totally set up yet as am still loading the ROMs to my USB)

      I'd like to backup these ROMs to a network drive on my home system as well, just so I have a backup.

      I'm interested to know if there's a way to backup the ROMs directly from the mounted USB to a network drive, from the Raspberry Pi, without needing to run the copy/paste or robocopy from my windows computer?

      Is there a function I can run on the raspberry pi that could do this? And even better, is it possible to do so in the background, whilst still playing on retropie?

      Thanks

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        mitu Global Moderator
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        No, you'll have to do it manually, either via rsync (from the Pi) or robocopy (from Windows).

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          alpinemonkey @mitu
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          @mitu So, I can do it from the pi but just not whilst continuing to use Retropie, you mean? I presume there's plenty of info out there for how I would go about doing that?

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            mitu Global Moderator @alpinemonkey
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            @alpinemonkey said in Backing up ROMs from mounted USB drive directly to mapped network drive:

            So, I can do it from the pi but just not whilst continuing to use Retropie, you mean?

            Hm, I don't understand what you mean ? I never said anything about 'continuing to use' or not. Of course, since your ROMs are on an external USB driver you can just remove it from the Pi and connect it to your backup system, but I don't think that's what you were asking ?

            I presume there's plenty of info out there for how I would go about doing that?

            rsync has plenty of documentation and examples, so does robocopy.

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              alpinemonkey @mitu
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              @mitu My note about continuing to use related to my original post. So... Am I able to run the backup from the same pi that I'm using retropie on, whilst for example playing games at the same time?

              What I'm wanting to avoid is having to use my windows laptop for the process as it's used for other things by the family and robocopy is so slow.

              Ideally, I'd want to back up the ROMs on the usb directly to a network drive but all from within the pi (so that this can happen in the background and other life can carry on!)

              I've managed to find some helpful tips for using rsync so will investigate those as well

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