Crashed HD

[ernstgot 17]

I just had a hard drive crash out and was wondering if there is a way for Emby to show just off line content, so I can go back though and make a clone of said hard drive.  Yes I know backing up is a great thing (raid) but for me at this moment it is costly.

[plazma 13]

It already does this, but only for shares/folders, from what ive seen/observed. so have all your movies on one drive, tv on another and movies goes, it should show offline next server scan.

 

Ive been smitten by this in the past long ago, I run a full drive catalogue on my server once a week now with a bash script and upload an encoded version to dropbox.

 

Question (out of interest), what's the make/model of the drive, don't tell me its a wd green or Seagate dm series.

Edited August 10, 2015 by plazma

[wiretap 30]

Just as a note, RAID is not a backup. It just adds redundancy to protect against failures. A backup solution would be storing your data on an external drive at another location, or cloud storage such as Backblaze or Crashplan. 

 

But yes, to answer your question -- just run a report from the web interface and see which media is marked as "offline".

[Lumute 108]

Mmm, this is an interesting topic, how does that offline status works? I moved a movie out of the library and then it just does not show anymore... Also, I tried the web reports and I do not see any way to filter by offline status, or export it, the status column just not export...

[ernstgot 17]

I do not see a section where it shows a filter for offline content?  Where would that be?

[Spaceboy 2573]

There isn't one

[Longrifle 33]

Mmm, this is an interesting topic, how does that offline status works? I moved a movie out of the library and then it just does not show anymore... Also, I tried the web reports and I do not see any way to filter by offline status, or export it, the status column just not export...

I don't think you can remove it from the library, the system has to see it as unavailable.

example, all my tv shows are on an external drive connected to the server, if I unplug that drive, on the next library scan it will mark all the tv shows offline.

[Lumute 108]

I don't think you can remove it from the library, the system has to see it as unavailable.

example, all my tv shows are on an external drive connected to the server, if I unplug that drive, on the next library scan it will mark all the tv shows offline.

 

Oh, I get it, that makes sense...

[plazma 13]

Ive been in that same situation, I know it doesn't help with what you already lost, just implement your own manual drive index, it doesn't take more than a few lines of batch or bash to echo a drive index to a file. Its saved my bacon a few times since I started doing it.

 

Its not really losing the stuff its knowing what's gone so it can be replaced.

 

As I said I would be interested to know the make and model of the drive that went down :-)

[ernstgot 17]

for some reason when i replace my movies on to a new hard drive Emby now shows the old one as offline and the new one that is actually there as online... is there a way to delete the old one?  i have try going into metea data and deleting it there but no luck.

[plazma 13]

Remove the old library, scan, add it back, scan.