GhostRider 46 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 (edited) The backup plug-in backs up playlists but not collections in appdata\roaming\media-browser-server\data I use custom artwork in my Collections and it would be useful to have the backup plug-in backup all user data. Having to manually backup the collections folder is a major annoyance. Edited February 3, 2018 by GhostRider 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14913 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Hi. Custom artwork is not considered user data but is meta data. The backup plug-in is not designed to back up any of your metadata. It does back up your true user data (e.g. watched and favorite status). Backing up the actual collection definitions is something we should consider for the future though. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baenwort 97 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 How are the chances of getting collections backed up? With the old collections.xml you could keep a copy to restore if you reinstalled/rebuilt your Emby server. Now that the old tags aren't supported there is no way to preserve the collections that someone spent time creating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37065 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Good chance. It's something we need to add. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unisoft 272 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 Good chance. It's something we need to add. Thanks. Yes please Luke seeing as 4.x took away collection.xml!!!!!! After spending hours recreating them by hand, I would hate to do this again on a new nas or reinstall of emby.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37065 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 In the meantime we do have a wiki article on how you can backup collections manually: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Collections-%E2%80%93-Manual-Migration Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unisoft 272 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 In the meantime we do have a wiki article on how you can backup collections manually: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Collections-%E2%80%93-Manual-Migration Thanks. Thanks but that is for Windows. Where is it on Synology NAS as the file system is usually hidden away for where Emby itself is installed. I can only see cache and metadata because Emby had an option to store in a non default folder/volume for example. I don't think Synology Filestation app will even show the main Emby app installation folder contents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37065 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 It's actually for all platforms because the server dashboard will show you the path, as instructed in the wiki. @@cayars please improve this part of the article. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 I changed this one section so hopefully that helps. An easy way to find this folder on ANY OS Emby runs on is to go to your Web Dashboard and scroll down the right side until you get to the PATHS section which will look something like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37065 Posted March 6, 2019 Share Posted March 6, 2019 Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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