Migrate from Synology to Windows

[KandyMan 7]

As the title says, I’m trying to migrate Emby from a Synology box to a windows box. The movies/tv shows will be staying on the Synology box.

I’m trying to follow the migration guide but when trying to add media folders or point to the backup location, the network is not showing anything, if I manually type the server name/pathToBackup it just says path not found.

Am I missing something obvious?

[Eigeplackter 91]

Did you map the shared volumes, i.e. /volume1/Video/, to a letter in windows?

You will need valid synology credentials to do so.

[KandyMan 7]

I tried mapping the network drives, nothing appeared. Also read that mapping them is worse for performance?

I don’t know how but in the end it suddenly started to pick up the Synology. Countless reboots, countless times accessing the Synology from within windows and out of no where Synology suddenly recognises it.

At one point Emby was saying incorrect username/password when I was trying to connect to the Synology. It might be nice to have a prompt to let Emby use a specific login when connecting to network drives since I assume it’s just using whichever account I’m using on the windows machine. How it’s finding those credentials I have no idea, but just a suggestion as it would have made the entire process so much easier. What took hours should have only taken seconds

[Eigeplackter 91]

Sure, the performance will be worse as the media files reside on the Synology the actual windows server needs to cache (download) the media

to process it (i.e. transcoding) and than has to push the transcoded media to the client for playback. It's one step more than having it on the same device.

 

Glad it worked out for you.

The login credentials arent needed by emby, the mapping is done by OS.

 

 

Second picture shows where to put in the synology credentials for the mapping.

That's the gui based method, can be done via cmd or ps too.