Migrating from Windows to Synology NAS

[dougw03 16]

Hello,

I decided to purchase a Synology DS920+ and migrate my Emby server from Windows to the Synology DSM OS. I have about 4TB of media content and started a media scan and chapter thumbnail extraction yesterday. It's been about 16 hours and Scan Media Library is at about 88% and thumbnail extraction is at 39%. The progress seems to have stalled and it's moving by fractions of a percent per hour now. I need to restart my emby server to get my premiere code to register, but I am afraid I will lose my progress. Regarding my migration I have two questions:

1. Will Emby pick up where it left off if the server restarts?

2. Is there a way to transfer the previous library data (thumbnail extraction, watch history) from Windows to Synology? 

[Luke 42087]

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I need to restart my emby server to get my premiere code to register

Hi, just FYI, a server restart is not needed for this. What gave you that impression?

[Luke 42087]

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1. Will Emby pick up where it left off if the server restarts?

Yes it will.

[Luke 42087]

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2. Is there a way to transfer the previous library data (thumbnail extraction, watch history) from Windows to Synology? 

Yes, enable saving video preview thumbnails directly in media folders.

[dougw03 16]

24 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, just FYI, a server restart is not needed for this. What gave you that impression?

I entered my key and said it was accepted - "Thank you. Your Emby Premiere key has been updated." Then on the Emby Premier page it says "Emby Premiere key is missing or invalid." I assume something is wrong and need to restart my server.

[dougw03 16]

28 minutes ago, Luke said:

Yes, enable saving video preview thumbnails directly in media folders.

Since this has taken 2+ days I want to make sure I don't mess this up. I already started the process without checking that box. If I let it finish then check the box, does it start all over again and I need to wait 3 days to finish? Do you know why the scan media library is taking so long? This has been going on for 2+ days now too and am wondering if it's being gated by the thumbnail extraction.

[Carlo 4561]

If you're doing thumbnail extraction during library scanning I would turn that off to help speed up drastically the scan time.
Thumbnail generation will happen at night or you could start that process yourself from Scheduled Tasks.

[dougw03 16]

25 minutes ago, cayars said:

If you're doing thumbnail extraction during library scanning I would turn that off to help speed up drastically the scan time.
Thumbnail generation will happen at night or you could start that process yourself from Scheduled Tasks.

Thanks I am 95% done so I'm just going to let this finish at this point. Do you know if I check the box to enable saving video preview thumbnails directly in media folders, then will this restart the process?

[Luke 42087]

24 minutes ago, dougw03 said:

Thanks I am 95% done so I'm just going to let this finish at this point. Do you know if I check the box to enable saving video preview thumbnails directly in media folders, then will this restart the process?

HI, there is help text at the top of the library settings dialog that goes over what the changes apply to. Does that answer your question?

[Carlo 4561]

1 hour ago, dougw03 said:

Thanks I am 95% done so I'm just going to let this finish at this point. Do you know if I check the box to enable saving video preview thumbnails directly in media folders, then will this restart the process?

No it won't restart the process but if you previously weren't storing the bif files with the media then flipping the option will only affect new media scanned.  To get them all stored with media you would need to remove the previous bif files first.

Any time the image processing is halted for any reason it picks up the next time you start it.
Thus you could stop the current scan, turn this off and get a much quicker scan, then just run it from the schedule task area and it will only process those files without the index.