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RE: Migrate Jellyfish from bare metal linux to an lXC container - TheDreadPirate - 2024-03-19
Run "du -sh /path/to/backup" and run "du -sh /var/lib/jellyfin /etc/jellyfin" on the original system running Jellyfin. Something is missing. This is a pretty straight forward process. I've restored from a backup once with this process.
RE: Migrate Jellyfish from bare metal linux to an lXC container - B B - 2024-03-19
I was able to solve my problem and it was indeed ownership related, but not what I expected.
I was too preoccupied with the idea of making the directories available to the LXC Container(Basically a VM) that I completely glossed over the fact that the owner and group of those directories needs to be "jellyfin" and not just the Virtual Machine. I installed Jellyfin on a brand new VM and compared the owner/group of every single file in the two directories mentioned, and edited them on the machine I was working on at the same time. After restarting the service, everything ran without any issues.
On a side note for anyone struggling with related issues, I also moved my media to a new hard drive and Jellyfin would not find the movies on it(even though I made a "ln" soft link with the same path), so I had to run "chmod 777 '/path'" in order to make them readable by anyone(it wouldn't let me change the owner because of the file system).
Much thanks, TheDreadPirate, I probably would've given up long time ago if it wasn't for the brainstorming/ideas you gave me.