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How do you backup and restore Jellyfin - QuestionsBoyee - 2025-02-17
Over the past 2 to 3 years i've had catastrophic failures of the jellyfin install and when you have 20 users, that text has pissed me off every time. My family is usually cool about it and the rebuild of the configuration of all the software/services is time consuming but straight forward. The last few back ups I have used my VM software to back up the entire server. What is the proper way is there a plugin or script to run to make backups of the software before upgrades or on a regular interval?
RE: How do you backup and restore Jellyfin - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2025-02-17
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/backup-and-restore
The current proper way to backup your Jellyfin server is to turn it off, then make a copy of its config folder.
It's different on each install type. You want to copy your config and your data Jellyfin folders.
On Docker installs by default, you want to copy the entire config folder as it has everything inside it (including another sub config folder).
On plain Linux, you'd copy the /var/lib/jellyfin and /etc/jellyfin directories.
Just look at the documentation to figure out what you need.
I also say it's important to have your server turned off so you can be sure your copy isn't while the database is in the middle of something, causing your copy to have a corrupted database.