Watch History post media storage death

[kiraserv 6]

Heyhey, I've recently had a total failure of the media server and lost all the media.

I'm slowly building a new NAS but was wondering 2 things,

If the media has been removed from the folders that make up the library, does this also "forget" the watch history?

If the watch history is retained, is there any way to see it, so replace what hasn't been watched yet without mistakenly downloading content that has already been watched?

This is mostly for TV, but the question is for all content too.

Any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

[rbjtech 5284]

The user watch history is kept in the emby database and it uses the provider ids as the reference (imdb id, tvdb id etc)- so as long as you have a copy of the .db files in \programdata\data folder) then you can restore a watch history on any file system restoration.

Watch history is not removed, just because the media is no longer there. 

 

[kiraserv 6]

12 hours ago, rbjtech said:

The user watch history is kept in the emby database and it uses the provider ids as the reference (imdb id, tvdb id etc)- so as long as you have a copy of the .db files in \programdata\data folder) then you can restore a watch history on any file system restoration.

Watch history is not removed, just because the media is no longer there. 

 

Thanks.  The Emby installation was not impacted, all the installation files and etc reside on the server, it was a network drive that failed.  Physically damaged NAS  

I've kept a backup of the installation folder with all the databases from before the drive failure just in case.

Thanks

[rbjtech 5284]

10 hours ago, kiraserv said:

Thanks.  The Emby installation was not impacted, all the installation files and etc reside on the server, it was a network drive that failed.  Physically damaged NAS  

I've kept a backup of the installation folder with all the databases from before the drive failure just in case.

Thanks

Good news - shout if you need anything else but you should be good to go once the media has been restored.