Vault Backup Drive specifications and recommendations

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Keith Boettcher

• April 11, 2019 20:52

Can  someone describe the features an external 2 TB HDD will need to work as a backup device for the Vault? 

Does it need its own power or will the vault power it (USB)?

Will WD My Book work?   (Some models have their own power and some use USB power)

Any problems with default formatting of the HDD from the manufacturer, or will Vault/Bluesound formatting as ext4 take care of any external HDD?

If the external HDD is described as using encryption will Vault's formatting take care of that (decline encryption)?

Can someone describe a drive that they know works?

 

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • April 12, 2019 16:02

  The VAULT will supply up to 1.0 amp of power via USB so depends on the drive if it has enough power or not.

  During the backup, the VAULT will reformat the drive (as ext4 - so can't be read from Windows or Macs generally) and perform a backup. Encrypted drives are reformatted so encryption is lost (like the data that was previously on it).
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  David Levinthal

  • July 21, 2019 23:57

  does the backup drive have to be 2TB? I have ripped over 110CDs and only used 34.3GB. Could I backup the CDs on the vault to a 64GB USB thumb drive?  Can the backup drive be understood by a linux laptop/dekstop (say ubuntu 16.04.5)

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  Tony W.

  Product Support Manager

  • July 30, 2019 20:08
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  Hi David

  It must be a USB drive at least 2TBs in size. Your music and peace of mind is worth it...

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  Cdelecroix

  • October 27, 2020 07:13

  HI,  i used a sandisk SSD external card for the vault backup and now i want to use that 2 teras SSD to store music on my computer. And the SSD is invisible on explorer so i can't format it , i even tried SSD formatter and it is also invisible. So can you tell me how i can format my SSD for windows - many thanks - chris

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  Sam R.

  • October 27, 2020 13:31

  Hello Chris, 

  When using the in-app backup, the drive backed up to will be formatted in EXT4.

  If you wish to use the back up drive for multiple purposes, we recommend that, instead of using the BluOS app backup, you access the VAULT's drive directly and copy-paste the songs onto your drive. This will allow you to connect this external drive to any computer to have access to your library and allow you to restore your library to the Vault over your computer should you have any need to.

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  Cdelecroix

  • October 28, 2020 04:54

  thanks for the answer, but i don't want to use the SSD for backup. I just need to format this EXT4 format to the windows format. I tried with explorer and others softwares but the SSD is always invisible - thanks to find a solution, this SSD was working before i used it with the vault and it costs more than 200 euros so i need it working - thanks

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