2 Emby servers with remote cache and metadata

[Veggav 8]

I need some help figuring this out. 

 

I run an unraid server at home1 with my router as a OpenVPN tunnel so I can connect to my home network. 

This is running an emby server using the emby unraid docker. 

 

 

 

At my Home2, I have a Windows 10 PC that I have installed Emby server and I connect to my Home1 VPN network to be able to access my files.

At Home2, I set my library to \\192.xxx.xxx.xxx\library

And I'm also setting the metadata to \\192.xxx.xxx.xxx\appdata\binhex-emby\metadata\

When adding the library to my windows 10 server I uncheck all the boxes so it doesn't download anything.

 

So why it's not using the metadata provided by the server? 

It takes sometime to scan everything and it seems it's downloading everything all over again. 

 

Just to add some more info that maybe help someone to point out what I'm doing wrong:

 

 

 

This is on my Windows 10 server side:

 

Paths

 

Cache:

\\192.168.0.198\appdata\binhex-emby\cache\

Logs:

C:\Users\Bahamut\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\logs

Metadata:

\\192.168.0.198\appdata\binhex-emby\metadata\

Transcoding temporary files:

C:\Users\Bahamut\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\transcoding-temp

 

 

 

 

 

This on unraid side:

 

Paths

Cache:

/config/cache

Logs:

/config/logs

Metadata:

/config/metadata

Transcoding temporary files:

/config/transcoding-temp

 

 

Logs show Emby is probing the entire library again. 

Shouldn't it be ready to go since I pointed the remote library, the remote cache and remote metadata?

[Luke 37046]

We haven't fully tested doing this type of thing.

[Veggav 8]

We haven't fully tested doing this type of thing.

 

Ok, can you clear something out for me?

 

I'm wondering if a workaround to this would be possible with the backup and restore plugin. 

I'm not yet decided on Emby yet so I haven't purchased the premiere subscription. 

 

But if this could work this would be a really sweet:

Have a perfectly running emby server, back it up. 

Go to another server, restore. 

 

Just change the path to point out the same library or a copy of it, it can even be a cloud service, and it would avoid a complete new scan. 

 

Am I'm wondering this correctly? Can I take all the images, metadata, etc from one server to another and a avoid a complete new scan? 

[Luke 37046]

The backup plugin will transfer just about everything except for the actual database, so you will still need to run a library scan.

[Happy2Play 8270]

@@Luke

 

Won't there be a issue with metadata\library as each server will have different ids for each item, and each server will be deleting the others information?

[Luke 37046]

If all paths are exactly the same it may work