Migrating Emby User Data from Windows to Ubuntu

[BIgdongdong1028 6]

On 2024/3/16 at PM2点13分, Luke said:

您好，这回答了您的问题吗？

It didn't solve my problem.
Nothing happens after the backup is restored.

 

[BIgdongdong1028 6]

On 3/16/2024 at 2:13 PM, Luke said:

Hi, has this answered your questions?

I just need user/password/watching history
Restore from server A (Ubuntu) to server B (Ubuntu).

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i try "extract date from backup"

But the backup was not restored

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A server has a lot of users ，B server Only one user, BIGDONGDONG now

[Happy2Play 9780]

5 hours ago, BIgdongdong1028 said:

I just need user/password/watching history
Restore from server A (Ubuntu) to server B (Ubuntu).

The plugin does not work that way.

You need the orginal users.db along with the extracting the data from the library.db to get this info.  As Users are not a selective back as the plugin will maintain database sets and will not piece mill selective restore data.

But mismatching database creates a access permissions issue in my limited testing.  And may cause you fight with parental controls on every user.

So migrating systems will be an issue as you technically can reuse the same databases do to Path issues.

Have not tested this but you may have to do it manually exporting table from users.db old and open the new one and clear the current data and import old table.  Now all users will align with extracted userdata.

The old plugin extracted users and userdata and would have done exactly what you need but does not exist anymore and that method needs to be added into new plug.  As database set will not work in all migration processes.

[BIgdongdong1028 6]

12 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

The plugin does not work that way.

You need the orginal users.db along with the extracting the data from the library.db to get this info.  As Users are not a selective back as the plugin will maintain database sets and will not piece mill selective restore data.

But mismatching database creates a access permissions issue in my limited testing.  And may cause you fight with parental controls on every user.

So migrating systems will be an issue as you technically can reuse the same databases do to Path issues.

Have not tested this but you may have to do it manually exporting table from users.db old and open the new one and clear the current data and import old table.  Now all users will align with extracted userdata.

The old plugin extracted users and userdata and would have done exactly what you need but does not exist anymore and that method needs to be added into new plug.  As database set will not work in all migration processes.

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you said. Could you please explain in more detail? Restoring user data is very important to me. Thank you very much.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Just now, BIgdongdong1028 said:

I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you said. Could you please explain in more detail? Restoring user data is very important to me. Thank you very much.

The issue is the new system has a different users.db that the backed up system so you see the mismatch in userdata as the previous users do not exist and there currently is no way to restore just users without restoring everything from previous server as the databases are tied together is my understanding and just replacing users.db from one to the other techically work I have see access/parental controls permissions issue per user as now you have broken the paired databases (not idea if that is a thing) and may require toggle parental controls on every use to display everything correctly.

This is why I suggested the export/import option for the users.db as it may maintain what ever linking that has already happened but could be wrong.  It is a manual process though using a database tool.

 

But I would make a complete backup of your current system and just replace the users.db from old system into new system and test to see if it gives you what you want.  Once you login do a restore of extracted data to see if users now align.  But as mentioned you will need to test to see if all users have access to all their assigned content.

[BIgdongdong1028 6]

10 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

The issue is the new system has a different users.db that the backed up system so you see the mismatch in userdata as the previous users do not exist and there currently is no way to restore just users without restoring everything from previous server as the databases are tied together is my understanding and just replacing users.db from one to the other techically work I have see access/parental controls permissions issue per user as now you have broken the paired databases (not idea if that is a thing) and may require toggle parental controls on every use to display everything correctly.

This is why I suggested the export/import option for the users.db as it may maintain what ever linking that has already happened but could be wrong.  It is a manual process though using a database tool.

 

But I would make a complete backup of your current system and just replace the users.db from old system into new system and test to see if it gives you what you want.  Once you login do a restore of extracted data to see if users now align.  But as mentioned you will need to test to see if all users have access to all their assigned content.

Thank you for your help. You said there is no way to restore just the user data, so I had to restore the full backup.  it's Ubuntu restored to Ubuntu, not much has changed,but because of the different paths,, all the media library had to be deleted and recreated, but now it's very laggy. and I was surprised that even the API KEY was restored. I wonder if there are other problems

 

[Luke 42078]

HI, what do you feel is laggy?

[BIgdongdong1028 6]

42 minutes ago, Luke said:

HI, what do you feel is laggy?

After just restoring a full backup, everything is lagging. leaving it alone for a night.now it's much better, because the library path is different, so I deleted the media library and rebuilt it. So far everything seems to be working fine, Only the copy icon for the API key has disappeared, why?

[Lessaj 467]

6 hours ago, BIgdongdong1028 said:

After just restoring a full backup, everything is lagging. leaving it alone for a night.now it's much better, because the library path is different, so I deleted the media library and rebuilt it. So far everything seems to be working fine, Only the copy icon for the API key has disappeared, why?