Restoring Users on Jellyfin Server After VPS Reset

[Maxy TV]

Hello again!

I've created my Jellyfin server, but I mistakenly installed a plugin, so I've decided to completely reset my VPS where Jellyfin was hosted and start fresh.

However, I encountered a challenge, and it would be very convenient if I could restore the users.
So, I wanted to ask you which files or databases I should take so that when I reinstall the server from scratch, I can have the users I had before, only the users. It wouldn't be necessary to preserve their playback progress.

I can't use migration scripts from one Jellyfin to another since both won't be running simultaneously, so I need to extract the info I want to keep (the users) and put it into the new server.

I would appreciate it if you could help me with that. Thank you very much.

[TheDreadPirate]

Why did you reinstall? You can remove plugins.

If this is bare metal linux, /var/lib/jellyfin/data/ contains the databases. If this is docker, /config/data contains the databases.

jellyfin.db contains your users.

[Maxy TV]

Hello, thank you for the help. Unfortunately, I couldn't retrieve the users. When I imported the users table, it didn't allow me to access my server, and even importing the jellyfin.db file didn't work either.

The reason I had to reinstall was because I installed an external plugin incorrectly, and it broke the Jfa-go system.