Migrate Server Gotchas

[moviefan 187]

Since Win7 support has officially been killed off with Emby I am considering migrating to Win10 or 11 for my Emby install.  I would like to try and prevent losing any data/functionality as part of this upgrade.

I run backups regularly with the server configuration backup app and these are stored off system on my NAS.  I presume this will restore all of the played states.  What else do I need to be concerned about in a migration?  What about collections?  Is there some way to ensure I don't lose all of these?

Please let me know of any other thoughts or considerations.

[GrimReaper 4748]

Hey up, 

You might wanna take a look at KB article:

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

If you still have any queries afterwards, do post them here. 

Do you store NFOs/Artwork with your media? 

Cheers

Edited August 10, 2022 by GrimReaper

[moviefan 187]

Thanks for the reply.

NFOs/Artwork stored with the media.  Learned this lesson many eons ago.

Collections however I know are a completely different beast.  Despite trying to store these locally Emby has not accepted this for years.  I really don't want to have to rebuild all of them.  Is there some mechanism to ensure I don't have to rebuild?

[GrimReaper 4748]

Collection info is stored as <set> node in item NFO. If Emby is writing those NFOs you should have no issues recreating those collections when NFOs get read. 

Edit: To preserve current collections artwork, make a backup on install-dir\programdata\metadata\collections folder which you would manually revert once new server is up. 

Edited August 10, 2022 by GrimReaper