Artwork and Multiple NAS

[hegemon875 0]

Hi all,

I use two identical OMV NAS machines for my Emby library. One primary and a backup which is kept identical to the primary using Free File Sync. I also have artwork set to download into the media folders.

Beyond having a backup of my data, I also thought I could point the Emby libraries to the backup NAS when I need to take the main one offline for whatever reason, The issue is that Emby always has to scan and then redownload all the artwork whenever I do this even though the its the exact same data in both NAS machines. Is this normal, is there a setting I can change, am I doing something wrong?

[Luke 42077]

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The issue is that Emby always has to scan and then redownload all the artwork

Hi, what makes you think this?

[hegemon875 0]

After switching libraries all of the posters and other artwork are blank with the generic place holder images thats a piece of film or a folder. Then I manually set the libraries to scan and the artwork starts appearing again.

[Luke 42077]

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After switching libraries

What exactly do you mean by this?

[hegemon875 0]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

What exactly do you mean by this?

For instance under Server > Library in Emby, I will edit my Movies library and remove /mnt/OMV/Media/Movies (this is on the primary NAS), and then add /mnt/OMV2/Media/Movies (this is on the backup NAS).

[guunter 49]

On 1/6/2025 at 3:22 PM, hegemon875 said:

For instance under Server > Library in Emby, I will edit my Movies library and remove /mnt/OMV/Media/Movies (this is on the primary NAS), and then add /mnt/OMV2/Media/Movies (this is on the backup NAS).

This is why it rescans. It's seeing a new file path. The file path needs to remain the same in order to not trigger a scan. You could easily do this with docker but not sure about a standard install. Could probably be scripted i guess.

[hegemon875 0]

On 1/7/2025 at 7:06 PM, guunter said:

This is why it rescans. It's seeing a new file path. The file path needs to remain the same in order to not trigger a scan. You could easily do this with docker but not sure about a standard install. Could probably be scripted i guess.

Ah I see. So instead of mounting both shares I should just mount one share at a time to the same path. Perfect, thanks for the insight!