Total Newbie - Apologies in Advance

[simoncn]

(11-05-2014 10:18)gnomus Wrote:  Thanks David and Simon for your help. I hadn't considered using the TP-Link as a separate "audio-only" wi-fi setup. I am quite attracted to that idea. If I do this, would it be possible for the TP-Link to be set up so that it can talk to my BT-Home Hub for those occasions when an internet connection might be required (for example, to update the Linn firmware)? This seems to me to be what David is suggesting I do with the "Airport Extremes". I am prepared to do this (Airport Extreme, that is) if necessary, but if I already have enough gear to do this, then ....

You should be able to use Homeplugs to connect the audio switch to the HomeHub. As well as doing DS firmware updates, you will need this to install MinimServer updates on the audio NAS. These operations aren't time-critical, so using the Homeplugs should be OK.

Edit: changed "TP-Link" to "audio switch" in the above paragraph. The TP-Link would be connected to the audio switch, and the audio switch would be connected to a Homeplug.

Note: If the Homeplug connection were to fail part way through a MinimServer update, this shouldn't cause any serious problems. You might want to check with Linn that the same applies when doing a DS firmware update.

Quote:I thought that might be the case. Once I convert the disc for the QNAP, could I remove it from the QNAP, slide it into my Icy Dock (and who thought I'd ever end up typing a phrase like that?) and copy files from my Synology to it?

This might work. You will need to be careful you use the right partition on the HDD when copying your backup files.

Quote:As an aside, I noticed that after last night's back up, my back up HD had considerably more (~10GB) of data on it than was stored on the NAS. I think that I worked out what was happening, but wanted to check. Yesterday, I had to relabel a number of folders in my music library (because of another foul-up). I assume that when I did the "Copy To" command to do the backup, the new folders were transferred to the backup HD which added them to the previously wrongly-labelled folders.

If that is correct, then should I reformat the back up HD before copying files to it (in order to remove all of the wrongly-labelled folders)?

You don't need to reformat. It will be sufficient to delete the contents of the top-level directory that you're using as the destination folder for your backups.