Unraid Emby Advice needed

[guardianali 12]

I dont see an Unraid Forum section so I thought this would be a good place. Lot of people use Unraid so maybe having one created to keep those threads there....?

 

I just built an Unraid server. I also have a main PC with windows. 

My understanding is that you do NOT want to use local metadata that is IN the media folders for unraid. So if you have local posters and trailers and such that is in the same movie folder as the movie itself, you do not want to use that option for Unraid. The reason being that as you are browsing the library in Emby app, it then has to spin up and down all the drives as it needs to be pull those posters and meta data as your scrolling and browsing. Which causes slow down and drive wear. 

Is that accurate? 

If so and if that is not way it should be handled, then can  I have two instances of Emby? On different ports? One to be the main actual server that plays the media and the metadata and posters and such are stored locally with that server in a traditionalsense. I can make that a docker for instance. Or a dedicates small windows VM. 

Id like to also have a second install of Emby that still downloads and stores metadata and media like posters and trailers and such in the folder with the video itself. The reason being if you ever have to start from scratch or rebuild emby, it makes scrapping way less time consuming since its all there already and I am very 'having backup' kind of person. This version will basically do what my current server does. When I added new videos, it auto downloads the trailers and posters and such. But in the new instance, I would not be using this one for media consumption. It would only spin up drives for initial download of meta for new shows/movies. 

 

Is that doable?

[Luke 42079]

Hi, local metadata is a preference based on your setup and I don’t think there are any unraid specific implications to it.

 You can use two servers but you can’t have them sharing the same private data folders. 

there is an open feature request to have the server store copies of all images internally so that media folders are never accessed on demand just for browsing. We will be adding Fox in future updates. It sounds like that’s what you want.