After some issues, I managed to make my library work as expected (not a huge library, though). I would have recreated it from scratch to avoid migration issues, but I have many clients already set up and I don't have access to many of them (relatives that live far from where I am), so I needed to keep the db so they can still auto login. Idk if it will help anyone else, but this is what I did (involves some clean server installations, some libraries recreations and some library scanning):
General info / prerrequisites:
- I'm using Linux Mint 22.2 and I've always installed JF using apt or .deb packages (no Docker).
- I had a full 10.10.7 backup stored and secured.
Steps:
- Did a clean Linux Mint install (probably this step can be skipped)
- Purged my previous JF server if not installing the SO from scratch (sudo apt purge jellyfin jellyfin-server jellyfin-web jellyfin-ffmpeg7)
- Installed JF 10.10.7 using the .deb packages for Ubuntu 24.04.
- Restore the full backup (and keep it safe, in case anything goes wrong).
- Deleted all the "other" libraries, and also the music library (just kept the movies and collections libraries)
- Scanned those remaining libraries (movies and collections) to ensure the db is ok before migration.
- Made another backup before migration, just in case.
- In my case, installed libjemalloc2 and libicu70 dependencies before migration (libjemalloc2 can be installed using apt, for libicu70 I downloaded the .deb package for Jammy since Noble comes with libicu74). Both dependencies were not installed while trying to upgrade JF, the key was to install them before migration.
- Migrated using sudo apt install jellyfin
- Waited for migration to finish (looking at the new UI)
- Enter the dashboard using Firefox and check every setting is correctly set.
- Full scan the libraries again (movies and collections)
- Recreated the "other" and music libraries from scratch (and then scan / replace all their metadata).
- Took a new backup, which is the one I'll use in case something happens (and kept the 10.10.7 backup just in case I want to roll back). I guess you can use this backup to reinstall everything if you want to use another SO or Docker (the previous steps just allowed me to accomplish a succesful migration).
- That's it, JF works as well as 10.10.7, at least in my case. Collections are preserved, and I haven't experienced performance issues while using the UI or during playback.
My logic was to try to migrate the least of the db and recreate most of it from scratch to avoid possible migration issues. I kept the movies and collections libraries because I ran into all sorts of issues when migrating the database after deleting all the libraries (including movies and collections), specially whith collections. Keeping only the movies and collections libraries during migration and after a full rescan is what did the trick for me. After that, I recreated my other libraries, scanned them, and all is good now (took some hours for the scans to be completed, though).
Just my two cents.
General info / prerrequisites:
- I'm using Linux Mint 22.2 and I've always installed JF using apt or .deb packages (no Docker).
- I had a full 10.10.7 backup stored and secured.
Steps:
- Did a clean Linux Mint install (probably this step can be skipped)
- Purged my previous JF server if not installing the SO from scratch (sudo apt purge jellyfin jellyfin-server jellyfin-web jellyfin-ffmpeg7)
- Installed JF 10.10.7 using the .deb packages for Ubuntu 24.04.
- Restore the full backup (and keep it safe, in case anything goes wrong).
- Deleted all the "other" libraries, and also the music library (just kept the movies and collections libraries)
- Scanned those remaining libraries (movies and collections) to ensure the db is ok before migration.
- Made another backup before migration, just in case.
- In my case, installed libjemalloc2 and libicu70 dependencies before migration (libjemalloc2 can be installed using apt, for libicu70 I downloaded the .deb package for Jammy since Noble comes with libicu74). Both dependencies were not installed while trying to upgrade JF, the key was to install them before migration.
- Migrated using sudo apt install jellyfin
- Waited for migration to finish (looking at the new UI)
- Enter the dashboard using Firefox and check every setting is correctly set.
- Full scan the libraries again (movies and collections)
- Recreated the "other" and music libraries from scratch (and then scan / replace all their metadata).
- Took a new backup, which is the one I'll use in case something happens (and kept the 10.10.7 backup just in case I want to roll back). I guess you can use this backup to reinstall everything if you want to use another SO or Docker (the previous steps just allowed me to accomplish a succesful migration).
- That's it, JF works as well as 10.10.7, at least in my case. Collections are preserved, and I haven't experienced performance issues while using the UI or during playback.
My logic was to try to migrate the least of the db and recreate most of it from scratch to avoid possible migration issues. I kept the movies and collections libraries because I ran into all sorts of issues when migrating the database after deleting all the libraries (including movies and collections), specially whith collections. Keeping only the movies and collections libraries during migration and after a full rescan is what did the trick for me. After that, I recreated my other libraries, scanned them, and all is good now (took some hours for the scans to be completed, though).
Just my two cents.