Backing up and moving

[djerniehoule 23]

Hi guys, I am curios is there a way to back up Emby and move all the settings to a new machine? I personally like to go through all my tv, movies, etc and title them the way that I want. I found a backup, but it does not back up custom images, and some settings. I want to move everything to another machine the exact way I have it set up on this one.

[rbjtech 5284]

If you have not opted to keep metadata with the media (a per library option), then you need to literally COPY the entire Emby folder to the new location.   The Path will be shown in the dashboard.   Shutdown Emby before copying to ensure all the files are closed.  Once finished copying (it may take a while..) then fire up the new copy.   You can use both at the same time if you like as they are on different machines.

To make the system ultra portable in the future - then my recommendation is to store the metadata with the media and also enable the NFO option - which then keeps all your custom naming and configurations as well.   This allows you to install a brand new emby instance and simply point to the media and automatically get all your custom changes - ie your customisation is stored with the media, not Emby.

Edited March 19, 2022 by rbjtech

[djerniehoule 23]

Great! I will check this out..

 

[djerniehoule 23]

Can you point me to the keep metadata with the media location?

[rbjtech 5284]

3 hours ago, djerniehoule said:

Can you point me to the keep metadata with the media location?

Library>Select a Library>Turn on Advanced>Add NFO saver>Select to save Art to media folders>Select to save Thumbs to media folders.

Once scanned, you'll notice lots of nfo, jpg, bif etc files all being saved in the media subfolders for each item.

[djerniehoule 23]

ok cool, but this is not for live TV?

[rbjtech 5284]

17 minutes ago, djerniehoule said:

ok cool, but this is not for live TV?

I don't use LiveTV, so I'm not 100% sure where these images etc are stored, probably 'local' to emby.  But would be copied over if you copy the entire folder.

[Press1Now 3]

1 hour ago, djerniehoule said:

ok cool, but this is not for live TV?

Are you looking to back up and move the Series recording ?

[djerniehoule 23]

No, I run my IPTV Service Apollo Group TV through Emby, but when you first do it your channels look something like this:

NSW.Sydney.bein.sports.1.au

I changed that to Sports: NSW Sydney 1 and I changed the logo. I want to be able to move this setting to another machine, including logo image that I changed as well/

[Happy2Play 9782]

Ideally the entire Emby Data path (you can see that path in the top section of a server log).  Now issues may be path related if library paths change from one machine to the other.

Cross platform backup/restores really don't work do path changes.

[djerniehoule 23]

Ok, well looks like I still have homework to do. It would be awesome if Emby had a general backup for this, maybe in the future?

 

[Happy2Play 9782]

I don't do Live TV either, but I would assume similar to normal media.  Since it is tied to the current database you can not just copy then metadata folder as linked information or specific DBids will not exist on a new database so you need the entire existing install.

[djerniehoule 23]

Maybe someone out in Embyland has actually accomplished this? I see a lot of people customizing their images, and Meta Data, but nothing to move it to another machine, hmmm

 

[Happy2Play 9782]

They should exist in /metadata/livetv I believe if you want to test.  But not sure if folder ids apply only to current database.

Once copied to new system Run the scheduled task Scan Metadata folder.