Copy media files from another Emby server?

[danergo 37]

Let's say I'm having two Emby server instances in my local network: Emby Main, and Emby Secondary.

 

Is there a way (other than manually doing) to either "push" media files from Emby Secondary to Emby Main, OR pull from Emby Secondary to Emby Main?

My goal is to copy files from Secondary instance to Main instance.

 

Something similar to "Folder sync" plugin, but copy to network (rather than local file system), and without "backup" mindset (i.e. Emby Secondary shall not take into account any of these copies in its local catalog).

 

I'm quite open to ideas

[rbjtech 5284]

I'm a little confused with what you are asking... 

Do you just want to use the media stored locally and make it available to both emby servers ?

If yes, then you just need to create a fileshare on each server for those files, and then add that share to each emby server.

Each emby server will then be identical in what's 'available'.  But do remember that if that 'source' is removed - then emby will remove it as 'available' the next time it does a library scan.

ie

Server A - Has local files plus all files shared from Server B

Server B - Has local files plus all files shared from Server A

 

 

[danergo 37]

Hi!

No, I wish to copy (or more suitable to move) from ServerA to ServerB.

I.e: before operation:

ServerA: has local files

ServerB: has local files

 

I.e: after the operation:

ServerA: has original local files plus ServerB's local files in a custom subdirectory (stored LOCALLY! on ServerA)

ServerB: empty 

 

Currently I'm doing this within an SSH shell, and I would prefer doing it via GUI.

 

 

Edited August 14, 2023 by danergo

[rbjtech 5284]

Ok understood.  So no, emby does not do this, you need to copy the files via the os.

[danergo 37]

Thanks for confirming!

[pwhodges 2012]

There are any number of simple GUI programs for copying or synching files.  For my Emby installation I use Second Copy, and for more complicated setups I have had success with SyncBackPro.  Those are not free - but I'm sure it's not hard to find usable free equivalents.

Paul