Disk kaput: what should I do?

[ivan]

Hi,

One of the drives in my server died.

It had quite a few libraries.

While I troubleshoot and try to see what’s going on, I might run the server normally a few times (with the malfunctioning disk disconnected) and I’m afraid Jellyfin will detect that the content is not available and will remove the libraries and the respective settings. And then if I ever manage to bring the disk back, i would have to add everything from scratch. 

Is this a valid concern? And if yes, what should I do to prevent it?

[ivan]

It seems Jellyfin (v10.10.3) has not removed the libraries yet. I briefly loaded the web interface and the libraries were there. I have quit the Jellyfin service.

At the moment I'm doing a backup of the Jellyfin Data folder in the hopes that later, I can export a list of all the library's content in case the Jelly libraries disappear or my disk is unrecoverable (which at this point seems most likely).

Once I have the backup done...
What will be the best way of exporting a list of all the libraries and their contents into a csv or excel file? There's so much stuff that I 'm assuming I will lose forever, but at least having a list would help keep track of it.

[LiveTrash]

All of your libraries, play history, etc should stay tied to your user account(s) you have on your server. At least this is how it worked in my situation.

I restored my drives and media files, made sure all the directories and file paths were the same, started up the Jellyfin service, did a library scan from Jellyfin and it refreshed everything as it was previously.

Of course, it's always a good idea to backup all your config files in the event it doesn't work as expected. I'm running mine on a Ubuntu VM. I run a backup job automatically every morning at 3am and my docker file path I back up is /srv/media-stack/jellyfin/. This will varry based on the OS you run yours on and what you named your directories.

This backs up all the user accounts, data, configs, watch history, metadata, etc. It compresses the file and I end up with about a 500mb file.

To restore a backup, I simply take this file, extract it to the directory I backed up from and let it overwrite the old files. Of course make sure the Jellyfin service is not running at this time.

Hope this helps!