Emby Drive Migration Guidance

[nagetech 69]

Howdy Team Emby!

Going to have some upgrades on my server soon, and need to plan something out, with some pointers if possible.

Presently emby resides in it's default installation direction in windows under the AppData folder on the boot drive which is an SSD. I'm going to add a m.2 NVME drive to the system and would like to migrate the whole emby directory over to said m.2 NVME drive. The SSD will remain as the boot drive. It is in a r730 server setup as a RAID 1 config.

What are best practices to essentially switch the emby installation directory while successfully maintaining auto updates and auto start in windows? I don't use it as a service, just standard startup.

Thanks ahead of time! 

 

Edit: Added more details about my request.

Edited August 28, 2024 by nagetech

[Luke 42079]

Hi there, have you taken a look at this?

Configuration Backup

[nagetech 69]

Yes

I'm sorry I wasn't clear.

The SSD Boot drive isn't going anywhere. What I want to do was migrate emby from the SSD to the m.2 NVME that I will be adding to the system.

 

[nagetech 69]

Is it as simple as closing emby, and moving the fold from the AppData Folder to the new NVME drive, and fire it back up from there? 

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 hour ago, nagetech said:

Is it as simple as closing emby, and moving the fold from the AppData Folder to the new NVME drive, and fire it back up from there? 

For 99.9% for everything yes it will be that easy.  May be those outliars that point to something on the C:/ path if you ever applied a path in a plugin or within Emby but with it not going anywhere it should be seemless.  

Pretty sure you will have to update firewall rules or reset system.xml <IsPortAuthorized>true</IsPortAuthorized> to false before starting Emby and the script will remove and readd them.

[nagetech 69]

Thanks for the input @Happy2Play

 

I was concerned if I did that, I would be missing a few steps to ensure auto updates and it auto starting on boot still worked without issue. I know how to change paths for emby folders like metadata & cache, so no sweat there.

 

I suppose there's something to be said about simplicity, being able to move emby like this is much better than a complicated reintall.

 

Cheers! 

[jimbrandon8056 0]

On 8/29/2024 at 7:23 PM, Happy2Play said:

For 99.9% for everything yes it will be that easy.  May be those outliars that point to something on the C:/ path if you ever applied a path in a plugin or within Emby but with it not going anywhere it should be seemless.  

Pretty sure you will have to update firewall rules or reset system.xml <IsPortAuthorized>true</IsPortAuthorized> to false before starting Emby and the script will remove and readd them.

I have just started to use Emby coming from Plex. I tried your tip but all new recording still go the default in user appdata etc... I do have directries on the data drive and they are configured in Emby but Emby always creates the same path and location in Emby.

This is a no go for my setup as I have small boot disk and larger data disk, not NAS, just physically attached storage.

[Happy2Play 9780]

4 minutes ago, jimbrandon8056 said:

I have just started to use Emby coming from Plex. I tried your tip but all new recording still go the default in user appdata etc... I do have directries on the data drive and they are configured in Emby but Emby always creates the same path and location in Emby.

This is a no go for my setup as I have small boot disk and larger data disk, not NAS, just physically attached storage.

What platform but I will assume you need to manually configure Metadata/Transcoding-Temp/Cache and Recordings to custom paths per there setup pages.

Cache is Settings page

Metadata is Library-Advanced tab

Transcoding-Temp is Transcoding page

Recording is Live-TV-Advanced tab

And all these places would have to be manually reconfigured/or manually updated in database as I don't think they are file driven anymore but not positive.

[jimbrandon8056 0]

So sorry, Windows 10, default direcdtory structor and installation. Only change is the data drive\directory.

I did change the cache path.

I do not use transcoding so I have set to no.

I did finally change the default recording directory.

I have changed the metadata path to the recording directroy.

So now, to try it out...

 

 

Thank you so much, I was alread grey haired but this made me loose a few!!

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 minute ago, jimbrandon8056 said:

So sorry, Windows 10, default direcdtory structor and installation. Only change is the data drive\directory.

I did change the cache path.

I do not use transcoding so I have set to no.

I did finally change the default recording directory.

I have changed the metadata path to the recording directroy.

So now, to try it out...

 

 

Thank you so much, I was alread grey haired but this made me loose a few!!

Sounds like you should technically use the portable instead of installer and put the entire install wherever you like.

[jimbrandon8056 0]

Like is said, this is about my second day working with Emby. I reall like th interface but will consider you suggestion.

Thanks again.

[Luke 42079]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.