Loke 4 Posted May 21, 2022 Share Posted May 21, 2022 Hello, I have been trying emby in docker for some time and I decided to try and migrate my existing installation from a VPS to docker on a dedi. I have read the instructions on the ~wiki and some threads here. I ended up: just tar-ing all the contents of /var/lib/emby while emby on the VPS was shutdown via the webui stopping emby container erasing contents of the bind mount dumping the tar in the host dir It appears to work perfectly fine, users work fine, libraries and watched content is intact (I use mergerfs and kept the libraries paths the same). So my question is, any reason I shouldn't have done it this way? Should I have preferred a more complex cherry picking of dirs and migrating data from the {old,new} sqlite DBs as I have seen in other threads? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Luke 37054 Posted May 21, 2022 Solution Share Posted May 21, 2022 Hi, yes that method will be perfectly fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loke 4 Posted May 28, 2022 Author Share Posted May 28, 2022 Just for the sake of discussion (if you got the time for it), is there another method that is considered better? Afaik it's just that or the backup plugin (which doesn't migrate everything). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37054 Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 On 5/28/2022 at 6:55 AM, Loke said: Just for the sake of discussion (if you got the time for it), is there another method that is considered better? Afaik it's just that or the backup plugin (which doesn't migrate everything). Those are the two options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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