As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup before upgrading!
Now, if only there was a simple, built-in way to backup/export and restore/import all settings and other data, so that all platforms could do this easily, without having to search the internet for which folders to back up…
FYI, this is the best we have atm (which is pretty terrible). Please correct me if there is a better way:
Oh, if only there was real database support like Mariadb or Postgres…
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Theoretically, support for that could be coming… Emby (where Jellyfin is based on) always used their own layer for interacting with a SQLite database. All that custom made logic is currently being swapped out for EF Core. EF Core is a DotNet library for interacting with databases and EFCore that also supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server besides SQLite.
So my guess is that, once all that work is completed, support of other database can be added.
For a little bit of context. I am currently running Jellyfin on Btrfs and there is quite a performance impact due to CoW. If 2 clients decide to browse the libraries, both clients grind to a near standstill with regards to being able to see things. So I am following this work with quite some interest.
I am currently running Jellyfin on Btrfs and there is quite a performance impact due to CoW. If 2 clients decide to browse the libraries, both clients grind to a near standstill with regards to being able to see things.
CoW is not recommended for databases, all DB servers advise for turning it off for the actual database. You’ll run into the same issue with a dedicated database if you leave CoW on I guess. You could also disable CoW for jellyfin’s database right now and performance should increase.
I also follow the progress of a dedicated DB, but on the other hand I don’t know how much sense it makes architecturally. The likeliness that you have multiple jellyfin server instances access the same database is low - after all, there is info very specific to the server in there like the file path. Just migration is already not easy, how likely is sharing the database live? And if each database is specific to an instance - why not use SQLite (like it’s done right now) and allow for more specific parameter tuning, like used memory and the like?
If you run it on a container, it should be enough to just make a copy of the set up volumes, right? (with permissions and all the metadata kept of course)
I’m surprised at the lack of enhancement request/PR addressing this.I really want to dust off my C# and try but I’m kinda scared that the reason it isn’t yet a thing is because it’s a mess to implement.
This has been discussed before and you might be right.
Python Backup Script (Good luck if you’re not a developer)
… and so forth. No good answers so far.
I run mine in an LXC container. I just snapshotted it in case of disaster and then ran apt update && apt upgrade.
Thanks devs!
I yolo’d it without a backup (docker). Working great. Like the improvements.
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My ass with it on watchtower update lmao
I got the surprise treatment.
Saw the announcement on the telegram channel (I use the app exclusively for notifications by my services) and noticed that my watchtower container already upgraded it :p
Cool. There’s a db fail bug elsewhere that I didn’t run into thankfully.
I had to switch from ConfusedPolarBear(archived on GitHub now) to this fork for intro skipping. Works great.
I’m still scanning for the new trickplay function but I’ve been hoping for something like that. It was disabled in the settings by default, plus you have to enable it on a per-library basis, and of course you can either wait for the schedule to start the scan, or start it yourself in scheduled tasks.
I thought intro-skipping had been included in Jellyfin now but this doesn’t seem to be the case (can’t find it in release notes) … Thanks for the tip for the 10.9 plugin 😸
Dual subtitles!!! That’s a game changer for me
What’s the benefit of this? Is it two subtitles playing at the same time?
Yep. It’s really useful for learning a new language
Now we only need it in the AndroidTV app. Then I’d be 100% happy (basically 95% with the app atm) :)
day 2 of building my trickplay images… 10.8% done lol
🤘 33.6% here
Seems like this is a feature on newest Jellyfin Media Player (1.10.0) and not server itself, but you now have clickable tag and studio properties. Not sure if you could already search for let’s say “New Line Cinema”, but now you can intuitively filter by these values just by clicking. Great addition.
Not 100% sure but I think it’s a server feature, I feel like I’ve read about it in the release notes.
This functionality appears only in Media Player and not web browser, that’s my reasoning why this does not seem like server side feature. That said Media Player I believe is using same web interface underneath so not exactly sure how it works and why this is not a feature in web browser.
When I first set up my jf docker image I left the config and data directories in the docker container instead of pointing them outside. Now when I try to update I lose all my metadata. Is there a way to move those folders before I upgrade? Edit-typos
I feel like there is a way to copy stuff from docker-volumes to disk and then point docker to the folders on the disk as external volumes, I think I’ve done that at some point years back, but not sure how to do it exactly.
Woohoo! I think the fix for iOS audiobooks that I helped (well asked enough questions that someone else then fixed quickly) bring into the world! https://blog.rayberger.org/fixing-jellyfin-ios-audiobook-streaming
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Hell yeah!
Any idea how the flatpak’s are generated? When they might be updated?
If I were you I would move to podman. They are very similar but the big difference is that podman uses docker containers. Podman also runs as a local user just like flatpak
Looks like it’s a manual process.
It also looks like no Jellyfin developer is creating the builds on Flathub and that some random member of the flathub community did it.Whilst the devs provide instructions for all manner of install methods, the preferred version is definitely via docker.
