Can't Restore Emby Server Backup on TrueNAS Scale, Stuck on Deploying

[nicholas_davies 15]

Hi all, I'm not sure if anyone on here can help me, but I though I might give it a shot. I have my Emby server on an old MacBook Pro. However, I recently got a mini PC on which I installed TrueNAS Scale and want to switch my Emby server. I installed the official TrueNAS Emby app from the “Discover Apps” section (I have screenshotted my config settings for Emby below). In the settings for the Emby app, I added the dataset “emby” where my backup folder is located (the most recent Emby server backup being yesterday). On the first boot-up of Emby, everything went fine. I was able to access the webpage and set up the server like normal. I activated my Emby Premiere, went to the restore backup section, and added the backup folder with no issues. When I clicked “restore from backup” it gave me the normal pop-up saying that the Emby server would be restarted, to which I clicked ok. However, when I went back to my TrueNAS GUI after telling the server to restore from the backup, Emby was stuck deploying and would be so for hours. I have searched for hours trying to find a solution and nothing has worked. I tried disabling SMB share, I tried creating another dataset specifically for the backup folder, and then adding that to the additional storage in the config settings for Emby, I tried changing permissions on all the datasets to full permissions, and none of these things have worked. Has anyone else experienced this issue? How do I fix this?

[Luke 42077]

Hi @nicholas_davieshave you tried this again? Are you still having this issue?

[nicholas_davies 15]

@LukeYes, I still haven’t figured this out. It just sits and says “deploying”. 

[Luke 42077]

Where does it say deploying?

[nicholas_davies 15]

19 hours ago, Luke said:

Where does it say deploying?

Under apps and deployed

[Luke 42077]

HI, are you still having an issue with this?

[nicholas_davies 15]

@LukeYes, it was never fixed, but I gave up one it and just kept my Emby server on my older computer

[Luke 42077]

OK thanks for the update.

[thermanbub 1]

Hi, I had a similar issue (the 0s for cpu and ram are telling). I also had a deleted/moved dataset (your deleted/moved dataset is the outline folder dserver). My Emby instance was working and borked itself with the last update (4.8.10.0). Anyway I followed this post’s recommendation on folder structure and unallocated all the gpu compute nodes. Looking at the Related Kubernetes Events in the history section was key for me. I also started looking here, but the gpu messages solved it for me. I’d advise looking at the logs. 

[Luke 42077]

@nicholas_davieshas this helped?

[nicholas_davies 15]

@LukeI have not tried it again because I decided to switch my Emby server to an entirely different computer that is just running MacOS.