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Upgrade experiences, anyone? I have a ~40TB library and was still on 10.10.7 because of all the performance issues with 10.11. Upgraded straight to 12.0 and wa

by bhaney 24d ago

Upgrade experiences, anyone? I have a ~40TB library and was still on 10.10.7 because of all the performance issues with 10.11. Upgraded straight to 12.0 and was impressed with how quick and painless it was! As the upgrade instructions warn about, some of my titles disappeared until a rescan added them back, but that was the only weirdness. The whole initial migration only took a few minutes.

amiga386 24d ago
Same here, though my migration took about 10 minutes, and the rescan took about 30 minutes. It also had a few minutes of generating trickplay images, though it must have just been filling in gaps, because generating trickplay images for a large library takes days.
sippeangelo 24d ago
I wrongly assumed I was below version 10.10.7 and tried to "upgrade" to it first as the migration guide said, but this completely blew up and the db migrations failed. I then tried to skip straight to 12 and that also crashed on startup during db migrations, so I just nuked the whole Jellyfin config and started from scratch. Bit unfortunate how this can even happen, but it's on me for not checking or taking a backup first. The config/db really contain anything important anyways, other than "watched" markers that are already out of sync for me across Emby/Jellyfin/Plex.
- Mashimo 24d ago
  So on what version where you?
Hikikomori 24d ago
Just pulled latest container and it just worked as far as I can tell.
s_dev 24d ago
Went from 10.11 to 12.0 and had zero issues. Scaleway/Ubuntu/Docker env with 8GB RAM. Well one small niggle, I had a custom script setup on Caddy that overrides how certain buckets are sorted because my users are too lazy to follow my instructions. They changed the BucketID string in some way but this more to do with me having a custom script dependant on something they don't guarantee. Hopefully they allow admins to change a users preferences in the future but currently it has to be done at the user level. I'm sure that will be in a future update.
- dust-jacket 24d ago
  if you're running on scaleway, can I ask what you're doing for media storage? scaleway block storage?
  - s_dev 24d ago
    Scaleway Object Storage + rclone. Airbus is switching from AWS to Scaleway and has begun their migration. So they are enterprise grade but seem to have the ease of use of Digital Ocean which I migrated from last year. I get a bit overwhelmed by AWS sometimes in work so it's nice to use a simpler product for my personal setup.
suprjami 24d ago
Updated the rootless podman container and restarted, worked fine.
wccrawford 24d ago
Probably 20TB here, 10.11.11, upgrade was smooth and quick. Maybe a few minutes of migration time? I was actually just getting frustrated with Jellyfin performance and had just told my wife last night that I was switching back to Plex. I didn't realize it was a .11 thing. I just realized that it had gotten worse lately. 12 is working good in the browser so far, but I haven't really put it through the paces fully on Android.
altmanaltman 24d ago
ducks before people start throwing paper balls at me Windows 11, upgrading jellyfin has literally never been an issue.
- Synthetic7346 23d ago
  Windows 11? booooo J/k whatever floats your boat my dude
  - altmanaltman 23d ago
    yeah when I started my homelab journey I wanted my windows desktop to also be a server. Over time i moved to pis and other smaller footprint stuff but my media server still is my desktop pc and works via a remote wake up and sleep method over day/night cycle to manage less power consumption. only I use my jellyfin mostly so how can i watch stuff if i am asleep
erulabs 24d ago
yep, "just worked". Seems to be much better at properly categorizing some of the more stubborn corners of my library as well. Congrats to Jellyfin maintainers!

by bhaney 24d ago

amiga386 24d ago

Same here, though my migration took about 10 minutes, and the rescan took about 30 minutes. It also had a few minutes of generating trickplay images, though it must have just been filling in gaps, because generating trickplay images for a large library takes days.

sippeangelo 24d ago

I wrongly assumed I was below version 10.10.7 and tried to "upgrade" to it first as the migration guide said, but this completely blew up and the db migrations failed. I then tried to skip straight to 12 and that also crashed on startup during db migrations, so I just nuked the whole Jellyfin config and started from scratch. Bit unfortunate how this can even happen, but it's on me for not checking or taking a backup first. The config/db really contain anything important anyways, other than "watched" markers that are already out of sync for me across Emby/Jellyfin/Plex.

Mashimo 24d ago
So on what version where you?

Hikikomori 24d ago

Just pulled latest container and it just worked as far as I can tell.

s_dev 24d ago

Went from 10.11 to 12.0 and had zero issues. Scaleway/Ubuntu/Docker env with 8GB RAM. Well one small niggle, I had a custom script setup on Caddy that overrides how certain buckets are sorted because my users are too lazy to follow my instructions. They changed the BucketID string in some way but this more to do with me having a custom script dependant on something they don't guarantee. Hopefully they allow admins to change a users preferences in the future but currently it has to be done at the user level. I'm sure that will be in a future update.

dust-jacket 24d ago
if you're running on scaleway, can I ask what you're doing for media storage? scaleway block storage?
- s_dev 24d ago
  Scaleway Object Storage + rclone. Airbus is switching from AWS to Scaleway and has begun their migration. So they are enterprise grade but seem to have the ease of use of Digital Ocean which I migrated from last year. I get a bit overwhelmed by AWS sometimes in work so it's nice to use a simpler product for my personal setup.

suprjami 24d ago

Updated the rootless podman container and restarted, worked fine.

wccrawford 24d ago

Probably 20TB here, 10.11.11, upgrade was smooth and quick. Maybe a few minutes of migration time? I was actually just getting frustrated with Jellyfin performance and had just told my wife last night that I was switching back to Plex. I didn't realize it was a .11 thing. I just realized that it had gotten worse lately. 12 is working good in the browser so far, but I haven't really put it through the paces fully on Android.

altmanaltman 24d ago

ducks before people start throwing paper balls at me Windows 11, upgrading jellyfin has literally never been an issue.

Synthetic7346 23d ago
Windows 11? booooo J/k whatever floats your boat my dude
- altmanaltman 23d ago
  yeah when I started my homelab journey I wanted my windows desktop to also be a server. Over time i moved to pis and other smaller footprint stuff but my media server still is my desktop pc and works via a remote wake up and sleep method over day/night cycle to manage less power consumption. only I use my jellyfin mostly so how can i watch stuff if i am asleep

erulabs 24d ago

yep, "just worked". Seems to be much better at properly categorizing some of the more stubborn corners of my library as well. Congrats to Jellyfin maintainers!