Cloning Setting From Emby Windows

[Barbablanca 7]

I'm a newbie to the Linux OS, so navigating will initially be a challenge. My motivation to switch to ASUSTOR Emby server was losing all the television programs that I had amassed on a USB external hard drive. At least now with RAID redundancy, I should in theory have a backup copy ready to go in the event one drive fails. My question is what do I do to clone all the settings from the remaining functional USB drive to the new RAID drive? Do I convert the Windows Emby database file to a text file, then search and replace all occurrences of the USB drive with the new RAID drive and save as a database file on the Lockerstor server?

[Luke 42077]

Hi, have you taken a look at this?

Backup & Restore

[Barbablanca 7]

Backup and Restore works only if restoring to the same drive. As I said my present storage is on a Windows MyBook USB drive, and I want to copy everything to a RAID1 volume on a Lockerstor6 server. Would it work if I map the RAID volume as a drive, then convert the Emby server database to a text file, search and replace all instances of the USB drive to the drive letter of the RAID volume and convert the text file back to the database file for Emby ASUStor?

[Luke 42077]

10 hours ago, Barbablanca said:

Backup and Restore works only if restoring to the same drive. As I said my present storage is on a Windows MyBook USB drive, and I want to copy everything to a RAID1 volume on a Lockerstor6 server. Would it work if I map the RAID volume as a drive, then convert the Emby server database to a text file, search and replace all instances of the USB drive to the drive letter of the RAID volume and convert the text file back to the database file for Emby ASUStor?

Hi there. What makes you think it only works if restoring to the same drive?

[Barbablanca 7]

"When migrating to a new machine, media paths will need to remain the same as on the original server."  Does that not imply that the drive letter must remain the same? I'm going from M: (the MyBook) to a RAID volume (which I can map as a network drive) Again, why I asked about using a text editor to change all references to M: to the letter of the new network drive?

[Luke 42077]

For libraries yes that is true, however the restore process will restore other things besides just library setup. So saying that it works or doesn't work I guess depends on your point of view.