How To Backup, Restore & Move Your Rekordbox Library
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- A full guide on how to properly backup, restore and move your Rekordbox library without losing any data. Whether you're a professional or bedroom DJ, this guide will make sure you never lose your music!
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🔖 Contents
00:00 - Introduction
00:33 - Backing up everything at once
01:45 - Backing Up Database Separately
02:19 - Backing up your Music Files
03:04 - Restoring the Database
04:12 - The Backup Of Last Resort
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ive been looking for a while to find a video that actually explains this thank you so much cause i already lost my music once
thanks! really straight-forward explainer. exactly what i was looking for :)
Brilliant video and amazingly executed! Big up!
Thks for doing this video Chris...I understand this backing up more clearly now 🤜🏾🤛🏻
No problem 👍 Thanks for watching!
Really good video, thank you :)
Spot on, thanks! I prefer moving my music files to the secondary source manually and just doing a backup and restore of the database. That way, it only has to add the files it doesn't already have. Much faster than backing them up through rekordbox. That's provided I haven't deleted files from the primary source, if I have then the secondary source needs the music files deleted and re-added from the primary before restoring the database on the secondary.
Exactly what i needed. Many thanks and keep up the good work
You're welcome!
great video thank you
So helpful. Thank you so much !
You're welcome!
Thanks for the help!
Thanks!
Thanks for this tutorial. I want to transfer my rekordbox collection from one macbook to another. In doing this, I want to keep my current file structure for my media the same. Will this method also recreate this file structure?
Hi Chirs, I found your video extremely interesting and educational. Thanks for creating it!
I have quite a niche situation... My computer one day stopped working. So I ripped off my entire memory from it (inc 90GB music) and have that on a 1TB hard-drive. I did not however create a back up of my library meta data... Is this a huge problem or should that file now live somewhere on my 1TB hard-drive?
Hey am using only usb drives for my gigs, and dont use laptop.. so how can i backup my tracks from usb drives with all the hot cues, changed titles etc??
I have a laptop where my music files are all over the place inside the laptop's storage? what would be the easiest way to back them up? and export it to another device?
Hi. Does anyone know a fix for the back up just freezing around 40% and not completing? Ive tried lots of things but im getting stressed. Thanks
I Tried to upload my library to the cloud service. It deleted alot of my artist names and album names. Massive inconvenience, why name them again if they are going to delete them again. Anybody know why this happened? Please help!!
I’d have liked to see more on backing up music to an external drive. Like, will it keep all the cue points as well? And how do you upload your files back into rekordbox if you need to?
The rekordbox database is the thing that contains the cue points etc, so just backing up the music files themselves will not retain this. If you chose the option to back up the files as well, then RB will restore everything. Hope that helps :)
This is how i clone my 2 laptops... every so often i backup then restore the 2nd laptop so it matches 100% Works perfect!
What if you have 2 external drivers
@@DJGUSFRING idk, i use 2 external SSD's and they are identical. They both have same names so the DJ software knows exact song location
Thank you so much for the video man! I just updated to ver. 6.8.4 and the "Export Library" option is faded (I cant click) Do. you know any fix for it,? Im running in a mac, free version. Thank you again!
Nvm, I figured out! You have to switch to "Export" Mode to allow export. Thank you again mate! 👍
Facing an issue with Restoring my collection (Backed up from my Windows Laptop, currently shifting it to a MacBook Pro), it doesn't progress past 2% and it just says Failed to restore collection. Anyone faced this issue? Windows Rekordbox might 6.6, the Mac Rekordbox is the latest 6.8.2.
Thankyou so much ! Can I delete the backup file when I finish the backup?
I might not be understanding your question but the backup file is the thing you want to keep so you can restore everything should the worst happen
Chris - great videos as always. Thank you.
Question...If I wanted to change my external HD for a more stable one to store my music, would I just copy the music to the new HD and then tell Rekordbox to look in the new folder on the new HD to find the files. I'm thinking I wouldn't need to back up the database at this point as I'm not changing computer, only the storage. Hope that makes sense!?
Should work.. but back up first anyway 😁
Supposing you have two eternal drives one analysed by a different computer, how do I get that playlist on that drive to show up on my pc without necessarily having to analyse the tracks afresh
Afraid the library is a complete restore. You can’t just restore a partial library for example an individual playlist with the tracks analysed etc
Does this method work if I originally store all my tracks and created playlists with hot cues not in the “rekordbox collection playlists” but on my usb/hard drive?
Rekordbox doesn’t store any files itself it only links to them. As long as they are in your collection and accessible it should work
Big question: If I am using icloud to store emy music/playlists, can I use rekordbox both on my desktop at home and my laptop when I travel?
You will still need to export your music library from the ‘main’ computer and import it to the secondary one to bring in your meta data. But you *wont* need to include the music files as part of the RB backup, iCloud will handle that
Hey great explanation. However, I still have big issue with History. It does not save tracks, just creates empty playlist with the dates. I play with controller and laptop, more than 60 secs. I'm using an external drive, because I can just go between my laptop and desktop PC. So I keep the music files on this external drive organised in folders by genres and subgenres. The database also on this external SSD. But since March 2022. On the 3rd of March I got the tracks in history, but nothing from the 6th of March, it's empty. I checked the last saved tracks and they are still at the same location on my external drive. I tried to run rekordbox as administrator but did not help. Do you please have any idea?
Oh and with this issue the DJ Play Count not working either.
I envy you a bit a tagged collection of 9000+ tracks. I have so much music (300+GB) but no chance tagging that. Also, I am screenshoting your playlists from various videos to get inspiration (lol). Any chance you would share more of your library? I am mostly interested in neuro tracks.
Cool idea! Watch this space 👀
I’ve just tried backing up my library on a MacBook and restoring it on a windows laptop (without the use of a USB) once I’ve restored the library on the windows laptop. The exclamation marks are on every song. Is this simply because I didn’t use the USB stick ?
Did you choose the option to include the music files in the export?
Can we restore rekordbox analysed usb drive if not showing up in rekordbox software
Are on the latest version? There was an issue with usb drives on Ventura which is now fixed
Chris, I have rekordbox 6.6.10. A message comes up "Removable drive, device drive is corrupt . Do you want to delete drive?". I do have the latest copy of my drive on a usb flash drive which I use with cdj 3000 at work. My question to you is can I restore the INTERNAL drive of rekordbox with using the usb Flash drive? And does this mean that the database file as well been corrupted? how do i fix it. Thank You so much !
Haven't seen this one before! Might be worth reaching out on the pioneer forums. If the library is backed up on the other drive then you should be able to restore it from there as per usual
Hi!
Have you find a solution for this? I’m going through this nightmare and I’m not sure now to move from here?
I store my full library on the external drive. I still have my files on there and if I press “no” to that error I can still preview the tracks within the software. But I do wanna get rid of this issue.
I was right about to buy a new SSD for external backup as my music it’s only on that drive for storage purposes.
Also since I moved the database to that external from the preferences,I can’t see any Pioneer folder in there. Which I learnt it’s hidden in the ~Library folder on a Mac.
Hey Chris, You lost me at 3:13, assuming the computer crashed and you lost everything, how is there going to be anything to "restore" considering the computer crashed or has been "reset" after a repair?
In order to restore you need to have done a backup. As the video mentions it's a pretty good idea to store this on an external drive or in the cloud so if your computer dies it doesn't take the backup with it. Hope that helps!
Hello,
Will this also back up the playlists that I’ve made?
Yep 👍🏼
Is it a good idea to do the backup on my external hard drive?
Always a good idea 👍🏼
so I restored with music, but when I click on some files it says the files are missing. Do I need to back up my music even if I make a restore file with the music? any help would be much appreciated thank you.
If you did the backup with the music files included then it should restore them also. Try right clicking on the missing files and doing 'auto relocate'
Some of the original files are in my other laptop. But if I backup with the music included, does that mean I also have to drag the music files themselves onto an external in order for the files to be located again? Thank you for the reply and for the help. @@ReallyChrisM
you just blazed through the restore process. come on.
"This backup may be made with a different computer. Adding tracks to the same collection on multiple computers may cause troubles when you want to export such tracks." Can someone help please? ;)
Hi mate. This is a great video for me for future reference.
Can I pick your brains please? as the people at pioneer are not helping me at all.
In a nutshell I just got my computer updated/wiped as it was mega slow. The comp guy said "we will back all your music up and everything on your hard drive". Turns out I can't find any of my music, it was just downloaded from amazon or wherever so I assume in downloads. That is now empty.
Panic not, I thought ah well never mind i'd downloaded all that to rekordbox no drama i'll just log in there and all be there with hot cues and playlists as normal.
I log into Rekordbox and its all gone. Not one song. What has happened here? I'm so confused wouldn't the music, playlists and hot cues just be there as normal?
Any help would be great. As i'm so confused.
Liked and followed your page.
Thanks
Sorry to hear that!
Rekordbox doesn't store any music itself when you drag it in. It just references the files on your computer. If those go, RB wont be able to play anything.
The only way around this is to have a RB backup which *also* contains the music files themselves as mentioned in the video.
If the techies didn't do this backup within RB first and wiped the entire computer then unfortunately it sounds like everything is gone 😔
@@ReallyChrisM
Thanks so much for quick reply.
Ah man I feared this had happened. Only saving grace I have all the music online still. So be a big job but ill have to go through and add it all again.
Then fully this amazing vid to back it up. (See you in 6months lol)
R
Just skip to 00:52 'Even Pioneer knows this sh*t is gonna take ages'..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I use another method: Itunes match for the music
Ah interesting!
tap ho dubplate (please gimme)
30 quid a month a good deal? Do these ppl realize a regular DJ gig is about 150 quids these days?
If you're only being paid £150 a show then im assuming you will also have a full time job as well.
@@tobietera thank I'm not but 90% of DJs are
Thanks !