Emby Server Backup

[DTox83 2]

Ich habe schon viel von Backup und Restore gelesen aber begreife es leider nicht. Das könnte mir jetzt zum Verhängnis werden denn ich habe mir einen neuen Server PC bestellt. 

Aktuell läuft mein Emby Server auf einem Lenovo PC unter Linux Mint 21.3 und wird später dann auf einem Blackview MP80 unter Windows 11 seinen Dienst tun. 

 

Ich möchte jedoch vermeiden alles manuell neu einzugehen. Ich habe 20 Accounts der Familie mit Passwörtern mit Profilbildern. ca. 25 Film und Serienordner, alle Daten liegen auf externen Festplatten die per USB Hubs angeschlossen sind. 

 

Es wäre für mich ne Katastrophe alles neu einzugeben

Kann jemand (auch auf Englisch, ich beherrsche die Sprache fließend) sagen, wie genau ich vorzugehen habe (Haken setzen, etc) um ein Voll Backup zu erstellen und das dann auf dem späteren Rechner entsprechend einzubinden. 

 

Wenn mir jetzt einer sagt, Linux geht nicht mit Windows, Fang ich echt an zu weinen

 

Lg

[Luke 42077]

Hi, have you taken a look at our backup guide??

Configuration Backup

[Happy2Play 9780]

13 hours ago, DTox83 said:

Currently my Emby Server runs on a Lenovo PC under Linux Mint 21.3 and will later do its job on a Blackview MP80 under Windows 11.

Cross platform restores are really not possible as paths are totally different across the two.  There are several topics on trying to manually change path in the database to make this work but everyone has different setups and options so it is really impossible to cover every scenario.

Some of the basics.

UPDATE "main"."MediaItems" SET "Path" = replace( "Path", 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos', 'E:\Media' ) WHERE path LIKE 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos%';
UPDATE "main"."MediaItems" SET "Images" = replace( "Images", 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos', 'E:\Media' ) WHERE Images LIKE 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos%';
UPDATE "main"."MediaStreams2" SET "Path" = replace( "Path", 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos', 'E:\Media' ) WHERE path LIKE 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos%';
UPDATE "main"."Chapters3" SET "ImagePath" = replace( "ImagePath", 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos', 'E:\Media' ) WHERE imagepath LIKE 'C:\Users\Media\Desktop\Videos%';
UPDATE "main"."ItemExtradata" SET "Value" = replace( "Value", '"Path":"C:\\Users\\Media\\Desktop\\Videos', '"Path":"E:\\Media' ) WHERE value LIKE '%"Path":"C:\\Users\\Media\\Desktop\\Videos%';

If you filled in Network path on Library setup you will could need to update in options.xml and itemextradata. xml is obsolete in new 4.8+
Cinema Intro plugin paths
If you use AutoOrganizer you will need to update or delete the fileorganization.db
If you applied user images then path will need updated users.db

But doing a restore and removing all libraries or changing all folder paths in library setup if you don't want to try and manually update the db.

[DTox83 2]

It has work!

 

Thx all

[K1ng_Lear 237]

On 6/23/2024 at 1:02 PM, DTox83 said:

It has work!

 

Thx all

Blöde Frage, wie lange hat denn die Wiederherstellung aus dem Backup gedauert? Ich ziehe nämlich gerade von einer Syno auf einen Dell Rechner mit Linux Mint als VM um.

[Luke 42077]

7 hours ago, K1ng_Lear said:

Blöde Frage, wie lange hat denn die Wiederherstellung aus dem Backup gedauert? Ich ziehe nämlich gerade von einer Syno auf einen Dell Rechner mit Linux Mint als VM um.

Hi, it depends on how large the backup is and what storage it is contained on. Where is the backup?

[K1ng_Lear 237]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, it depends on how large the backup is and what storage it is contained on. Where is the backup?

Meanwhile is the restore of the backup done. All my libraries remain on the NAS but I mounted them, with the same path like on the new device. The libraries are all there, but I miss all the covers from music and when I open the details of a movie the people and chapters show the missing pic symbol. When I click on one of the actors a picture is there next to the info text. 
 

Can I solve this by copying some folders from the original server?

Edited September 5, 2024 by K1ng_Lear

[Happy2Play 9780]

10 hours ago, K1ng_Lear said:

Meanwhile is the restore of the backup done. All my libraries remain on the NAS but I mounted them, with the same path like on the new device. The libraries are all there, but I miss all the covers from music and when I open the details of a movie the people and chapters show the missing pic symbol. When I click on one of the actors a picture is there next to the info text. 
 

Can I solve this by copying some folders from the original server?

Sounds like you did not copy/backup the Emby metadata folder.  But probably need to see the server log as it should show errors of the path to what the db is looking for.

[K1ng_Lear 237]

32 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Sounds like you did not copy/backup the Emby metadata folder.  But probably need to see the server log as it should show errors of the path to what the db is looking for.

Yup, I didn't copy anything. I only pressed the restore from backup button. Was this a fault?

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, K1ng_Lear said:

Yup, I didn't copy anything. I only pressed the restore from backup button. Was this a fault?

Depend on the options you enabled for backup but default no.

[K1ng_Lear 237]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

Depend on the options you enabled for backup but default no.

I tagged every one of this checkboxes before I made the backup.

 

Edited September 5, 2024 by K1ng_Lear

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 hour ago, K1ng_Lear said:

I tagged every one of this checkboxes before I made the backup.

 

Then may need to see server log for the Restore and to see the errors you are getting via the broken image display.

[K1ng_Lear 237]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

Depend on the options you enabled for backup but default no.

I fetched the logs since I activated this server, too...

I guess the oldest, is the relevant one, isn't it.

 

 

embyserver-63861067996.txt embyserver.txt embyserver-63861091200.txt

[Happy2Play 9780]

7 minutes ago, K1ng_Lear said:

I fetched the logs since I activated this server, too...

I guess the oldest, is the relevant one, isn't it.

 

 

embyserver-63861067996.txt 88.76 MB · 0 downloads embyserver.txt 11.39 MB · 0 downloads embyserver-63861091200.txt 6.7 MB · 0 downloads

Little confused as it looks like all the metadata was restored to /volume1/Anime_Serien/EMBY Meta not Internal metadata path: /var/lib/emby/metadata and this is why the second log can not find the images it is looking for.

System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path

But @Lukemay have to look at this as to me it restored to the wrong location.

[K1ng_Lear 237]

14 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

Little confused as it looks like all the metadata was restored to /volume1/Anime_Serien/EMBY Meta not Internal metadata path: /var/lib/emby/metadata and this is why the second log can not find the images it is looking for.

System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path

But @Lukemay have to look at this as to me it restored to the wrong location.

Hmm, the /var/… path from the original device isn’t mounted on the new device. So the new server has no access tho this folder on the old device. I thought that this wasn’t necessary, because those data should be packed in the backup files themselves. 

[Luke 42077]

You configured the server metadata path on the old server, right? So this configuration got brought along to the new server.

[K1ng_Lear 237]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

You configured the server metadata path on the old server, right? So this configuration got brought along to the new server.

Yes. It was configured on the old server but the new server have no access to the metadata path. All the metadata, like actor name and description are filled on the new server, tool. But I I miss the thumbnails from all the chapters and on the detail screen of a movie are the actor pictures missing, too. When I click on one of those actors for the detail view, the detail view opens and contains a picture.

Edit: Oh, and I miss the user pictures, too.

 

Edit: I further discovered, when I refresh the metadata and tick on to alter all pictures, the missing one will be filled again. Unfortunately are all my previously by hand  selected pictures, like primary and backgrounds, are overwritten, too. 

Edited September 7, 2024 by K1ng_Lear

[K1ng_Lear 237]

Ok, ich habe jetzt das Backup einfach noch einmal darüber gebügelt. Bis auf die Bilder der Benutzer scheint jetzt alles da zu sein obwohl das Backup Tool einen Fehler gemeldet hat. 

[Luke 42077]

On 9/8/2024 at 3:22 PM, K1ng_Lear said:

OK, I just ran the backup over it again. Apart from the user pictures, everything seems to be there now, even though the backup tool reported an error. 

Hi, what error?