Jellyfin
Migrating to a new server
Debian / Bullseye, should work on others
- On the Old Server
- systemctl disable jellyfin.service
- systemctl stop jellyfin.service
- On the New Server
- Install Jellyfin on the new server
- systemctl disable jellyfin.service
- systemctl stop jellyfin.service
- Copy the contents of /var/lib/jellyfin (Example)
- mv /var/lib/jellyfin /var/lib/jellyfin.old
- rsync -auv oldserver:/var/lib/jellyfin /var/lib/
- chown -R jellyfin:jellyfin /var/lib/jellyfin
- Copy the contents of /var/cache/jellyfin (Example)
- rsync -auv –delete oldserver:/var/cache/jellyfin/ /var/cache/jellyfin/
- chown -R jellyfin:jellyfin /var/cache/jellyfin
- I would reboot
- systemctl start jellyfin.service
- Verify everything is working
- systemctl enable jellyfin.service
- Reboot to verify auto-start