Jellyfin Backups & Migration

[LeviSnoot]

Basing this thread off the following Fider request: https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/1603...nd-restore

I'm sure this feature is being actively developed still, so I want to add my 2¢ to the discussion.

What I'd like to see in the backup/restore feature is the following:

• A simple GUI for creating and restoring backups.
  
• A "restore" button in the Web UI setup wizard that comes up on first launch. That way we won't have to configure the server just to restore it right after.
  
• Backups should be platform agnostic, so they can be restored from any system.
  
• Library database items shouldn't be linked to a full file path since this can change in a migration. Give the user an option to define the new library paths on restore, and use a variable for the file paths based on that in the database.
  
• MariaDB option.
  
• Backup as a scheduled task so it can run regularly.
  

It's definitely no small task to get all of this worked out, but it will definitely give users more peace of mind that their server is safe. Feel free to further contribute to the discussion of the feature in this thread!

[Fabri91]

I agree that this feature would be very useful - at a bare minimum an easier way to backup and restore an "already watched" list would make migrating significantly easier.

[TheDreadPirate]

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

[LeviSnoot]

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

I believe this only works if the base file paths for library items is identical on restore, which may not always be the case.

[Marco2G]

I have to agree with the others, the way proposed by TheDreadPirate isn't satisfactory... I have tried this at one point and failed utterly. I was trying to move from an apt installed Jellyfin to docker and I could not get this to work, despite users on reddit helping me out and me trying to correct paths in the files manually.

There absolutely needs to be a way to move the database in an installation type agnostic way.

[cesar_bianchi]

Hy Guys

To help some users who are looking for a automatic jellyfin backup solution, I written a post with a suggest solution

It was written for Linux instances, but it's so simple change for another platforms kind.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-automatic-r...n-instance