Issues with offline/detachable disks

[md_heuler 2]

I've seen quite some discussion about how emby deals with media directories not always accessible but somehow
I couldn't find the right answers to my specific setup idea:

I currently run emby server 4.0.1.0 on Linux and I want to setup an archive server with the following features:

1. It shall allow for multiple (detachable) hard disk drives (USB or a HD dock).
    In the worst case only one of these disks will be attached at a time,
    others can be attached when I want to watch a movie from that disk.

2. The Media libraries on emby shall ALWAYS show ALL movies from
    ALL disks so that I can see which movies I have in my archive and search
    for specific content.

So here is my first attempt/idea to achieve that:

I create individual mount points for the different hard disks:

/disk1
/disk2
/disk3
...

I setup a Media library "Archive" to contain all those folders.
Of course I disable "Real time monitoring" and I also delete
the scheduled library scan.

I import all disks like follows:

- attach disk1 and mount it to /disk1

- goto 'Folder' navigation of library "Archive" and run a scan

  on /disk1 by right-clicking on the respective icon.
- after that I repeat the procedure with disk2, disk3 etc.
  in effect I see all my media, with meta data ... great

 

BUT If I ever happen to run a full library scan on "Archive"
all movies from disks currently not attached are gone and
I have to go though the import procedure again ;-(

 

Unfortunately there are situations where I cannot avoid these

scans, e.g., when I add another library or change the settings

on any library. In this case emby performs the scan automatically.

 

What would already solve my problem is if it could be possible to exclude

certain libraries (or folders) from an (automatic) library scan. In this case

I would exclude the "Archive" library and could even enable scheduled

updates for all other media libraries. I would continue running manual

scans as described above to update the "Archive" library.

 

I have also read about some 'offline' marker that emby once used to have.

This could be another great improvement. A possible scenario could be

to add an attribute 'offline content' to the library (or folder). In this case the

full scan would not remove unavailable content but just mark it as 'offline'.

In order to deal with actually deleted content in offline libraries (read that

this is a semantical issue here) one could still run a full scan limited on a

specific folder as described above. This would remove deleted content

only from that part of the library that is currently available/attached.

 

Would any of that be something to add to future releases of emby?

Does the described workflow make sense to you or am I just trying to use

emby for something that it is not designed for?

Is there a better setup to achieve my goal?

Or do you recomment to just use a different software?

 

Thanks.

[Luke 37068]

@@md_heuler are you still running into this?

[md_heuler 2]

@@md_heuler are you still running into this?

 

Yes.

 

Unless there have been changes in the very latest updates.

Are there any improvements I should have observed?

[Luke 37068]

Was there another posting with a server log?

[md_heuler 2]

I didn't post any server log as to my understanding the behavior of the server

(deleting/hiding recordings from detached disks)

is not a bug but is done by design.

 

So I thought I would request an enhancement rather than reporting a bug.

 

Am I wrong?

[Luke 37068]

I believe i have this resolved for the next release, thanks.