Migrating from Emby Server PC to Synology NAS, what are the steps?

[davesurfer 18]

17 hours ago, FrostByte said:

It's been a few years, but this is how I restored from my old Windows Backups

The pic of the plugin settings below is how mine is setup

From your post above I believe yours should read "/volume1/Emby Server Backups"

Move your old Windows backups to that location

 

You might have to run a scan, but your old Windows Backups should then be listed under "Current Backups"

Then just click on the Backup you want to restore from.

So I've moved the backup folders to /volume1/Backups, then pointed the Emby Backup plugin to that location, I didn't get an error about it being not found, but it didn't show anything under "Current Backups". You said I might have to run a "scan"? Where is this done? Thanks

[Carlo 4552]

Scheduled Task menu.
Probably the very first task at the top of the page.

[FrostByte 5258]

Click "Scheduled Tasks" and then click the start button next to "scan media library"

[FrostByte 5258]

*snap*

[davesurfer 18]

2 hours ago, FrostByte said:

Click "Scheduled Tasks" and then click the start button next to "scan media library"

So I did this, but sorta confused as doesn't this scan media libraries? We're just trying to get the backup plugin to see my backups. Anyways, I did this, then popped back into the Emby Backup and I get this rotating circle. I've restarted Emby server as well:

[Happy2Play 9447]

My guess is permissions for /volume1/Backups but a server log should say.

[Carlo 4552]

49 minutes ago, davesurfer said:

So I did this, but sorta confused as doesn't this scan media libraries? We're just trying to get the backup plugin to see my backups. Anyways, I did this, then popped back into the Emby Backup and I get this rotating circle. I've restarted Emby server as well:

You don't want the scan media option but the Configuration Backup task option which should be the top option.

Run that one time, then go into the backup plugin and see if your previous backs are available at the bottom of the screen to restore from.

[FrostByte 5258]

56 minutes ago, cayars said:

You don't want the scan media option but the Configuration Backup task option which should be the top option.

Run that one time, then go into the backup plugin and see if your previous backs are available at the bottom of the screen to restore from.

Sorry, that was my mistake.  I said to start the wrong task.

[davesurfer 18]

Ok, so that backup task failed. Maybe permissions thing? You'd think the currently signed in user on the NAS would be the user that it's app use for credentials.

 

[Happy2Play 9447]

1 minute ago, davesurfer said:

Ok, so that backup task failed. Maybe permissions thing? You'd think the currently signed in user on the NAS would be the user that it's app use for credentials.

 

Can you post a server log.

[davesurfer 18]

52 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Can you post a server log.

Thanks, here it is.

embyserver.txt

[Happy2Play 9447]

41 minutes ago, davesurfer said:

Thanks, here it is.

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Yes you need to adjust permissions

	System.UnauthorizedAccessException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/volume1/Backups' is denied.
	 ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

 

Edited October 26, 2021 by Happy2Play

[davesurfer 18]

4 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Yes you need to adjust permissions

	System.UnauthorizedAccessException: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/volume1/Backups' is denied.
	 ---> System.IO.IOException: Permission denied

 

How do I do this? Right now, all the shares I've created on the NAS can be accessed by me and other domain users. How do I assign a domain user for Emby server to authenticate with?

Edited October 26, 2021 by davesurfer

[FrostByte 5258]

7 hours ago, davesurfer said:

How do I do this? Right now, all the shares I've created on the NAS can be accessed by me and other domain users. How do I assign a domain user for Emby server to authenticate with?

Try using the same System internal user "emby" that you did for your media shares

 

[davesurfer 18]

3 hours ago, FrostByte said:

Try using the same System internal user "emby" that you did for your media shares

 

 

Thanks! That worked! That's what I needed to know. I didn't realize each Synology app created it's own user, it makes sense now! Awesome!

[Carlo 4552]

Glad you got that working.

Have you tried a restore yet?

[davesurfer 18]

3 minutes ago, cayars said:

Glad you got that working.

Have you tried a restore yet?

Yep, did the restore, it restarted and it all worked! I changed the library locations to the local "/volume1/.." instead of the network UNC. Seems to work great now.

[Carlo 4552]

Nice.  One thing to double check is the library types.
You want to click on the Library menu, then take a look at the libs it setup for you.  Make sure the library type shown under the title is correct.
IE a Movie Library is type Movies, TV Shows is type TV Shows.  You want to make sure it didn't switch to "Mixed Content".

[davesurfer 18]

1 minute ago, cayars said:

Nice.  One thing to double check is the library types.
You want to click on the Library menu, then take a look at the libs it setup for you.  Make sure the library type shown under the title is correct.
IE a Movie Library is type Movies, TV Shows is type TV Shows.  You want to make sure it didn't switch to "Mixed Content".

Thanks, it looks like it set the right library types for the libraries.

[Carlo 4552]

Perfect.  Even if it was wrong it can pretty easily be changed but it's best to verify the type.  For some reason the type gets set wrong every once in a while for some people.
Likely on older systems that have been through many major server upgrades.

[davesurfer 18]

Great thanks for all the help!

[Jissica 0]

On 23/09/2021 at 17:22, davesurfer said:

Hi! So I've been running Emby Server on a Windows PC for many years, but now want to migrate to my Synology NAS. I want to make sure I keep all my settings and metadata etc. Is there a good process for this? Thanks for any help!

another easy solution is by using migration tools like Sharegate , Gs Richcopy 360 and Carbonite , all have the ability to migrating your file server to Synology NAS , all have many features and just few steps to make the migration , search all

[Carlo 4552]

I'm fond of two methods of transferring all media and files.

One is using rsync which I think it the best method but not so easy on Windows.  If I don't need to continue using the windows machine I'll boot it with a Linux USB drive, mount the drive(s) and then rsync that way.

Alternately from windows side I'll use a batch file I setup to do the copy/move of files.  What I do is flip the archive bit of all files that need to copy over.  Then I use RoboCopy to copy only files that have the archive bit flipped while turning it off after copy.

If something like this is of interest to you, let me know and I'll dig out the commands I use for you.

[pteves 0]

@Luke, is there anyway to transfer a library from a PC to NAS that preserves the "date added"?

[Luke 40116]

14 hours ago, pteves said:

@Luke, is there anyway to transfer a library from a PC to NAS that preserves the "date added"?

Do you have nfo files next to your media? If yes then it will contain the date added.