Dealing with Library going Awol?

[dragon2611 27]

It seems when the storage holding the library folders goes Awol it really upsets emby in the sense that Emby will then remove everything and have to re-discover it once the library storage returns.

 

Sadly because my storage is a CIFS mount it does occasionally happen when auto-mount fails to mount it for whatever reason, it's then possible to get into a state where Emby knows the contents there but hasn't re-probed it yet so it will usually either not play or it will transcode unnecessarily 

 

Is there anyway to prevent it removing/rediscovering stuff it he library folder is reported as either path not found or empty during a scan?

 

Also I'm wondering if removing Music will make things easier as I rarely play music from emby anyway and it would remove a chunk of stuff it would need to scan through.

[Luke 37058]

I would just adjust the schedule of the library scan to make sure that it runs when the media is available.

[dragon2611 27]

Sadly Luke that is not possible, as the media folder should be available all the time however if I catch it at just the wrong moment (Say during an update to the storage VM) or emby starts the scan just a bit to quickly after a restart of that container it's occasionally possible that the autoFS doesn't fire and mount it, resulting in the library directory not being present.

 

I run autoFS as I found it was the most reliable way to auto mount a CIFS share and have it remount if the storage VM became unavailable.

 

The last occurrence was yesterday but I suspect that was related to the fact I was rebuilding the Raid after replacing a failing drive and thus whilst the storage backend was online it was being rather sluggish to respond (It only has 2cores of a C2750 atom)