Sync jellyfin settings across multiple servers

[McNobbets00]

Hi there,

I would like to begin with the obligatory apology. Sorry if this isn't the right place.

My hardware:
1x Dell R220 running opnsense

2x HP microserver g7 n40l each with 3x 2TB drives and a 160GB SSD to boot linux mint from

4x HP micro PCs running proxmox with a 500GB SSD for boot and storage

My software:

The HP microservers have Linux mint installed natively and are configured as a 12TB gluster volume.

The proxmox nodes all have a Linux mint VM with jellyfin installed. The jellyfin media library is in a mounted directory on the gluster volume.

The microservers and the proxmox nodes are on separate subnets of the opnsense box but there aren't any firewall rules set up aside from a basic "allow any" rule so they communicate as if the opnsense box was a switch.

My problem:

There are 4 jellyfin instances and I would like them to sync their settings.

I can get the libraries to sync by mounting /var/lib/jellyfin/root/default to a folder on the gluster volume but the settings (such as enabling/disabling the library) won't sync. Checking the XML file, it does change the options but the other instances don't update.

Mounting /var/lib/jellyfin/data to the gluster volume just breaks the particular jellyfin instance so that screws up syncing users for now, but I plan to use LDAP/active directory to circumvent that.

Does anyone here have an idea of how to do it properly?

Thanks

[TheDreadPirate]

Most of what you need to sync is in jellyfin.db and library.db. Not just the root folder. Users are also contained in jellyfin.db.

[McNobbets00]

Hi there,

Thanks for your response.

I have moved 2 of the VMs to syncthing as opposed to a mounted share for testing.

Syncing /var/lib/jellyfin/data/jellyfin.db and library.db seems to not have any effect.

Am I looking in the right place?

My theory aside from syncthing not behaving is that Jellyfin doesn't update it's configuration until a setting is changed. Can I force JF to look at it's setting in some way? Restarting the service with systemctl doesn't do the trick.

[TheDreadPirate]

Really, you should be syncing the entire /var/lib/jellyfin folder. There are a lot of things in the two database files that use absolute paths for metadata files and whatnot.

Again, Jellyfin IS NOT designed nor do we support this kind of deployment.

[McNobbets00]

You were correct. Thank you.

Syncing the entirety of /var/lib/jellyfin causes the settings to transfer across, but only after a restart.

Now I'm on to getting jellyfin to update the live configuration every so often.