Migrating from PC to Synology NAS using the same hard drive

[rekit 16]

I plan to use the same external drive with my current Emby library on it and just plug it into the NAS via usb 3.1. This is my first time using a NAS and I’m looking for the simplest way to keep everything intact and not lose all my metadata, etc.

Is there anything I should know before I start, or any guides for this type of server migration?

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, please take a look at this and let us know if it helps:

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159936-backup

Thanks.

[rekit 16]

Thanks Luke, that looks like it should do the trick 

[Luke 42078]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

[rekit 16]

It worked pretty well. The only issues I had were my own fault (some of the artwork I was using for certain library items was in a different folder on my desktop rather than on the NAS drive, so I had to re-map that artwork manually. No biggie.

For anyone else planning to do this, I'd definitely recommend trying to keep the folders of data that emby accesses - whether its metadata, cache, artwork, media, etc - all under one parent "emby" folder in case you need to move things around. I had some things on an SSD, some on one HDD, some on another HDD... bad planning on my part.

[Luke 42078]

Thanks for the feedback.