Jellyfin Backups & Migration

[enesha]

You can achieve, effectively, the same thing by backing up the jellyfin and library database files.

Effectively, yes you can apparently do that.  This does not allow EASY backup and restore, nor does it provide flexibility. (see my note in another forum wanting to import the viewed state of my library) .  It requires more than standard user ability.  The ability to export and import (perhaps choosing which tables to import...Maybe users, but not access or whatever...Up to the admin.

I am sure I don't know the work involved with such a thing.  The programming here is next to magic in my opinion, so I can't say it would be easy, but it's better than the admins and users needing to know the ins and out of the installs on the various platforms...where is the windows data, where is the docker data, where is it in *nix....

You can make certain assumptions (not really correct necess. these days) regarding capability of users/admins in win/mac/*nix/docker based on where they are from, but that's the pointy of asking for a unified experience