SOLVED: Scanning/Hardware

[docsuess84]

Hi all, relatively new to this process and it's been a learning experience. I currently have the server running on a Raspberry Pi 3b+ with the 32 bit stock OS. Not sure how much ram it has but it's not a lot. Maybe 1G? I've got my network storage drives mounted which took a minute to figure out but so far so good. My goal is really just to use Jellyfin in place of a MySQL/Maria DB synced library while also providing access on non Kodi devices like my iPad. I don't need transcoding or remote access. I don't even need Jellyfin to scrape images or metadata. I already do that with other software and generate my own NFO's and have fine-tuned the images I want. So I've started the scanning process and it seems to be stuck. I can't stop the process, or restart the process. It's just sitting there. I was going to post a log, but I'm not even sure how I do that.

[TheDreadPirate]

1GB of memory really isn't enough. Your 3B+ probably just doesn't have the power to run jellyfin. Scanning spawns a bunch of ffmpeg and ffprobe processes to scan the media and can consume the little bit of memory you have.

[docsuess84]

OK. I figured that might be it. What's the minimum needed to do what I want? I have an Amlogic box that was running CoreElec but Im pretty sure that one only has 1g of ram and a Vero 4K with OSMC that has 2g.

[TheDreadPirate]

2GB is probably the BARE minimum if there is no UI. 4GB is our recommended minimum and SBC's are discouraged, in general. With the exception of rockchip based SBCs due to actually having encoders/decoders for transcoding.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/admini...selection/

[docsuess84]

Ok, guess I should I have done more reading before diving in but I have learned a lot more Linux stuff than I knew a week ago so I guess that’s something. Those Rockchip ones sound really interesting. Maybe a dumb question, but is there a way to back up the settings so when I go to start this over again, I’m not starting from scratch?

[TheDreadPirate]

How did you install Jellyfin? Directly to Linux or are you using Docker?

[docsuess84]

Directly into Linux. I flashed a version of the operating system, and basically opened a terminal and downloaded the server right after that.

[TheDreadPirate]

Backup these two directories and put them in the next system.

Code:

/var/lib/jellyfin
/etc/jellyfin

After you install Jellyfin on the next system, stop the service, copy these files back, recursive chown so that jellyfin owns them, start jellyfin.