denywinarto 5 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Hi, after some painful BSOD's i'd like to create a golden OS image where the content is static, and it must not have any app with growing content, so i have to move emby to my second disk Other than moving C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server and relocating shortcuts Is there anything else needs to be done? What about registry>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Hi, How big is your system file wise (media)? If it not too big you might be best off starting clean using the Portable version which will let you run it from any drive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denywinarto 5 Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 9 hours ago, cayars said: Hi, How big is your system file wise (media)? If it not too big you might be best off starting clean using the Portable version which will let you run it from any drive. I'm afraid its huge, it's over 200tb, so there is no way to use the old database on the portable version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 "Huge", I won't call it small but it's a decent size system (ignore my humor by I'm pushing a petabyte of LOCAL media so everything is small to me) Kidding aside that a pretty large system which would take a lot of scanning over days if you reinstalled so let's not go there. I see you're running Windows and will continue to run windows correct just on a different drive for Emby? Do you have Emby Premiere? Would you be interested in a few remote sessions to help you with this? I say "few" because it will take some time between phases so no sense doing a remote while copy or move operations are taking place. But would you like help with this or just text based instructional help of what to do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denywinarto 5 Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 23 minutes ago, cayars said: "Huge", I won't call it small but it's a decent size system (ignore my humor by I'm pushing a petabyte of LOCAL media so everything is small to me) Kidding aside that a pretty large system which would take a lot of scanning over days if you reinstalled so let's not go there. I see you're running Windows and will continue to run windows correct just on a different drive for Emby? Do you have Emby Premiere? Would you be interested in a few remote sessions to help you with this? I say "few" because it will take some time between phases so no sense doing a remote while copy or move operations are taking place. But would you like help with this or just text based instructional help of what to do? Yeah i have emby premiere, i PM'ed you. I dont mind text based as long as it works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denywinarto 5 Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 Okay i have installed the portable version, and in process of copying the folders i mentioned. Takes a while cause its alot of files Could post the general idea here? Might help someone else too rather than remote session Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denywinarto 5 Posted October 16, 2020 Author Share Posted October 16, 2020 Okay i replaced everything inside Emby > Program Data And i put the following 3 folders Emby-cache Emby-Install Logs Emby-Metadata Outside the Emby folder, so Emby-cache Emby-Install Logs Emby-Metadata Emby > Program Data But opening emby on client still gives me blank colorful posters. Any idea why? @cayars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Really it's just a matter of copying all the key folders from your old location to the new location and it sounds like you're already doing this. Check out this Knowledge Base article on Backup/Restore looking at the manual backup half way down. https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159936-backup If you don't already use the backup now would be a good time as well. Take note the PATHS that are shown on the web admin page at the bottom. Most of these can be changed through settings as well so you can actually use different drives for different purposes. OBVIOUSLY don't change your old/working setup until you have things working on the new drive. This way you can't hurt things or feel rushed but can ask questions and get help if something on the new install isn't quite right after copying everything over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denywinarto 5 Posted October 17, 2020 Author Share Posted October 17, 2020 21 hours ago, cayars said: Really it's just a matter of copying all the key folders from your old location to the new location and it sounds like you're already doing this. Check out this Knowledge Base article on Backup/Restore looking at the manual backup half way down. https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159936-backup If you don't already use the backup now would be a good time as well. Take note the PATHS that are shown on the web admin page at the bottom. Most of these can be changed through settings as well so you can actually use different drives for different purposes. OBVIOUSLY don't change your old/working setup until you have things working on the new drive. This way you can't hurt things or feel rushed but can ask questions and get help if something on the new install isn't quite right after copying everything over. Yeah the posters eventually show up. But after new items are repopulated opening the emby webgui seems to be really-really slow. Coming from NVME to HDD i really notice huge speed difference But then I noticed the cache path is still on my NVME disk, is it supposed to be slow like this? What if i use primocache or something like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 The first time you access something that has a picture it will be loaded I assume from the HDDs and will then be put in the cache. So this will only be as fast as the drive the data is stored on until it's cached. If you scroll through say the first 1000 movies in your library (letting all posters load), exit then go back and do this again is it much faster the 2nd time or still slow? Depending on what you're specifically doing, the system could be downloading posters and things from a meta-data provider as well. Taking a look at the log file will help to determine this. But using SSD vs HDD will make a difference in load times for sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denywinarto 5 Posted October 18, 2020 Author Share Posted October 18, 2020 I mean it's like 15-20 minutes before anything shows up.. Yeah i'm coming from nvme so i know the speed difference, but high write apps were killing my OS drive. I got 2 samsung 970 nvme's dying in 1.5 year , now trying intel dc4511's which is supposed to be enterprise nvme. But last week i got BSOD's, and it went down from 100% to 99% in 76 days! it says i have 64TB of data written already in that period I'm still unsure which one is the culprit, sonarr, radarr, or emby. But after that BSOD's i'd rather have my OS drive separated from any apps with dynamic content. I just moved the emby folder to intel ssd and the speed seem to have improved. Will see if its enough for multiple clients. If not probably gonna try ramdisk Thanks for the help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4330 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 I've had really good luck with Samsung SSDs but don't use nvme types as I don't think they last nearly as well. You don't really need high speed drives for sonarr, radarr and similar programs so you could have them use conventional HDDs and remove a lot of wear and tear on your SSDs as well. Keep us updated on your progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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