manual migration from VM to docker

[Loke 4]

Hello,

I have been trying emby in docker for some time and I decided to try and migrate my existing installation from a VPS to docker on a dedi.

I have read the instructions on the ~wiki and some threads here. I ended up:

• just tar-ing all the contents of /var/lib/emby while emby on the VPS was shutdown via the webui
• stopping emby container
• erasing contents of the bind mount
• dumping the tar in the host dir

It appears to work perfectly fine, users work fine, libraries and watched content is intact (I use mergerfs and kept the libraries paths the same).

So my question is, any reason I shouldn't have done it this way? Should I have preferred a more complex cherry picking of dirs and migrating data from the {old,new} sqlite DBs as I have seen in other threads?

cheers

[Luke 42078]

Hi, yes that method will be perfectly fine. 

[Loke 4]

Just for the sake of discussion (if you got the time for it), is there another method that is considered better? Afaik it's just that or the backup plugin (which doesn't migrate everything).

[Luke 42078]

On 5/28/2022 at 6:55 AM, Loke said:

Just for the sake of discussion (if you got the time for it), is there another method that is considered better? Afaik it's just that or the backup plugin (which doesn't migrate everything).

Those are the two options.