Disaster can come from anywhere: a broken Pi (very unlikely), a corrupt SD-card or a data-disk which gets broken. In each case, the solution within RPMS is very simple

Broken Pi (very unlikely)

Steps to get back on track:

• obtain a new Pi which meets the system requirements (see above)
• swap the SD-card from the defect Pi
• connect your data-disk
• boot up the new Pi and you are ready to go

You may possibly need to reconnect player(s), see details in Troubleshooting

Corrupt SD-card

Steps to get back on track:

• if the hardware is damaged, obtain a new card, otherwise, use the same card

• burn and install RPMS onto the card (see above for instructions)

• now you are ready to go

You may possibly need to reconnect player(s), see details in Troubleshooting

Data-disk crash

In case of a server-based backup, you are 'lucky': b/c the backup-disk is an exact copy aka mirror of the data-disk and even of the same disk-type (ext4), you can simply swap them once the data-disk has been crashed.

Steps to get back on track:

• shut down the Pi
• unplug the usbbackup-disk from the Pi
• unplug the usbdata-disk from the Pi
• plug the usbbackup-disk into your local machine
• rename the label of the backup-disk from usbbackup to usbdata
  • for renaming the disk, use your favorite disk-tool (Disks, gparted, etc.)
• unplug the newly renamed disk (which is now usbdata) from your local machine
• connect the renamed disk to the Pi
• boot up the Pi
• check if everything is working correctly (smb, transcoding, lms, etc.)

By now, the backup-disk has been automagically changed into a data-disk and you can go on from the last backup that you made.

Note. As a bonus, you might rename the original usbdata-disk from usbdata to usbbackup and plug it into the Pi. Then you can do your backups again, as usual.

In case of a remote backup, you have more work to do:

• reformat a (new) disk for usbdata-usage (see instructions above)
• copy all data from the remote backup location to the data-disk under '/user'
• unzip rpms-system.zip (this file is present in the root of the data-backup)
• copy the contents of rpms-system.zip to /rpms
• attach the newly formatted and populated data-disk to the Pi
• reboot and you are back in business

Remember to make a backup to a new backup-disk immediately!

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