Yet another server migration question about libraries

[akacharos 31]

I've searched a bit on the forum but I couldn't find a clear answer. So it's not possible to migrate to another server with identical library paths without the need to scan the library again?
 

I used Server Configuration Backup to restore user accounts, configs, plugins etc. and it works great. However the libraries need full scan (and new metadata/images & thumbnails are generated). although the paths for the libraries are identical to the old server. Is there a way to skip that part and somehow used the ones populated from the old server? Why it's so essential to generate new ones if the paths haven't changed?
 

Edited December 7, 2020 by akacharos

[Luke 42077]

@cayars

[Happy2Play 9780]

Do to you not maintaining the entire Emby programdata folder (different path on each platform).  A new install has a new database so new scan is required.  As long as paths are the same you can migrate the entire folder to maintain databases and metadata folder if you so not save with media.

[akacharos 31]

So if I understand correctly,  in identical OS (in this case Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 20) I can install Emby on the new server ,shut it down , empty the newly generated /var/lib/emby/ folder, replace it with the content of that folder from the old server and in theory it should work, right?

[Happy2Play 9780]

4 minutes ago, akacharos said:

So if I understand correctly,  in identical OS (in this case Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 20) I can install Emby on the new server ,shut it down , empty the newly generated /var/lib/emby/ folder, replace it with the content of that folder from the old server and in theory it should work, right?

Yes that should work

[Carlo 4560]

When you move the complete setup like this you've essentially done a backup/restore operation that is absolutely complete. You'll be moving the configs, databases, cache, metadata, binaries, the whole thing.