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Hi!

 

If I go to the Emby backend my drives are often spinning up.

 

Would I prevent drives from spinning up off metadata would be stored in an external park on a SSD?

 

Thx!

 

b0mb

 

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Considering SSDs don't spin, yeah :blink:

What would be the best way to migrate or update the data.

 

Readding the source?

 

If I change the settings I guess only me scraped data will be stored in the external path.

 

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What data? :o

 

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Well let's say your original metadata is in /var/lib/emby (this is the default) - you want to move that data to an external drive (the SSD) and that external drive has a mountpoint for example of /external.

 

You would do this:

systemctl stop emby-server
mv /var/lib/emby /external/
echo "/external/emby /var/lib/emby none defaults,bind 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
mount -a
systemctl start emby-server

In this case your metadata, configuration and artwork would now all be stored on the SSD and Emby would continue to work as normal.

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But actually my metadata is stored in the directories or the series and movies....

 

So I guess I have to scrape everything again....

 

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But actually my metadata is stored in the directories or the series and movies....

 

So I guess I have to scrape everything again....

 

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Well yeah if your artwork etc.. is stored in each media folder - then there's no easy way of moving that to another drive without moving the media as well.

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So I guess readding the source would bump a new scraping process....

 

 

 

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So I guess readding the source would bump a new scraping process....

 

 

 

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Yes and no:

 

If the metadata is already in your media folders, then regardless of whether the "store metadata in media folders" option is ticked - Emby will still use what's already there.

 

So you'd have to:

  • Uncheck the above option,
  • Delete library.db from /var/lib/emby
  • Remove all metadata from folders.
  • Run a library scan in Emby.
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