I run JF in a docker container, and although I don't have backups of my config files yet (because I don't really care about setting up from scratch if need be), it would be trivial to simply backup the mounted config volumes. Makes upgrading safe and easy, too.

That's probably how I would recommend going about this, personally.

Oh, if only there was real database support like Mariadb or Postgres...

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.

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 believe they're suggesting just doing a full backup up of your system/Docker container. Which isn't ideal, but I think they're trusting people who can run a Jellyfin server to be able to use the scripts.

I have my media on a disk separate from the rest of the VM. I set that disk to not be included in snapshots, then snapshot the VM before upgrades.

I run mine in an LXC container. I just snapshotted it in case of disaster and then ran apt update && apt upgrade.

LOL, same. I did a docker-compose pull and restarted, came here to look at the release notes, and almost started panicking whether I omitted some important upgrade steps. Turns out everything upgraded smoothly automatically though.

My ass with it on watchtower update lmao

Yolod my docker image to lol.

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

Surely it can wait, right? How likely could it possibly be that it breaks when you least expect it?

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 😸

What’s the benefit of this? Is it two subtitles playing at the same time?

Now we only need it in the AndroidTV app. Then I'd be 100% happy (basically 95% with the app atm) :)

🤘 33.6% here

https://docs.docker.com/reference/cli/docker/container/cp/

You're just running in docker, so you'd want to make sure you map a local folder into your container (at a different location than they are already!), then get into the container and copy your files to the host's mapped folder. Once that's complete, update your docker to point your local folder to the proper config location and it should keep everything local after you upgrade.

Edit: In my compose, I have this line

/jellyfin/jellyfin-data:/config

so you could map it to :/backup on your first boot, copy /config to /backup, then update your compose to map it to /config and you're good to go!

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.

Only Server side and Web Client you get loaded up when you browse from PC

Not 100% sure but I think it's a server feature, I feel like I've read about it in the release notes.

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.

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