As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

  • Einar@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!

    Now, if only there was a simple, built-in way to backup/export and restore/import all settings and other data, so that all platforms could do this easily, without having to search the internet for which folders to back up…

    FYI, this is the best we have atm (which is pretty terrible). Please correct me if there is a better way:

    How to backup a JF instance?

    Jellyfin Docs: Migrating

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      2 months ago

      I run JF in a docker container, and although I don’t have backups of my config files yet (because I don’t really care about setting up from scratch if need be), it would be trivial to simply backup the mounted config volumes. Makes upgrading safe and easy, too.

      That’s probably how I would recommend going about this, personally.

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        4 days ago

        Yes, it works that easy. I had to move hard drives, last time I did that without docker somehow it didn’t recognize the library, might have been a mistake from my end though.

        Now I did it again just a few weeks ago with a docker setup, all folders are on the hard drive. Could just mirror the drive, set it up at same mount point and there was no difference in the library, just worked.

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    2 months ago

    Cool. There’s a db fail bug elsewhere that I didn’t run into thankfully.

    I had to switch from ConfusedPolarBear(archived on GitHub now) to this fork for intro skipping. Works great.

    I’m still scanning for the new trickplay function but I’ve been hoping for something like that. It was disabled in the settings by default, plus you have to enable it on a per-library basis, and of course you can either wait for the schedule to start the scan, or start it yourself in scheduled tasks.

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    2 months ago

    Seems like this is a feature on newest Jellyfin Media Player (1.10.0) and not server itself, but you now have clickable tag and studio properties. Not sure if you could already search for let’s say “New Line Cinema”, but now you can intuitively filter by these values just by clicking. Great addition.

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    2 months ago

    Thanks devs!

    I yolo’d it without a backup (docker). Working great. Like the improvements.

    😎

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    2 months ago

    This reminds me…I probably should do a full backup of my server sometime soon.

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    2 months ago

    When I first set up my jf docker image I left the config and data directories in the docker container instead of pointing them outside. Now when I try to update I lose all my metadata. Is there a way to move those folders before I upgrade? Edit-typos