Moving Library.db to alternate location

[RedBaron164 18]

I've been monitoring my Emby server trying to improve performance. I'm seeing high disk activity when library.db gets hit pretty hard. My disk active time maxes out or gets very high and then the response time for the C: drive starts to climb and its about 500ms. So I would like to move the library.db to a secondary drive to see if it helps with overall performance. Is that something that's possible and has anyone tried it? I've moved the cache location to a secondary drive as well and that helped a bit but I want to try moving library.db if it's at all possible.

[Luke 42085]

Hi, we currently don't have any settings for this. You would just have to start fresh with a new portable install.

[RedBaron164 18]

Ok, I'm going to try moving the Metadata path first and see if that helps.

[rhodges 49]

Maybe try a symbolic link. Yes, you can do them on windows: (do a hard link)

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

Edited June 8, 2017 by rhodges

[RedBaron164 18]

Maybe try a symbolic link. Yes, you can do them on windows: (do a hard link)

 

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

 

I've thought about doing that just haven't giving it a try yet. If I continue to see disk activity issues with the library.db file I'll probably give it a shot.

[RedBaron164 18]

Just an update, I created a symbolic link for the entire Emby-Server\data folder and moved it to a separate drive and it works great.

[Luke 42085]

Thanks for the feedback.