I have a jellyfin server running debian 11 that was modest spec when I built in early 2013, and isn’t doing a great job of keeping up with new media encoding or multiple streams now.
I’m looking to upgrade the core components but the thought of reinstalling the OS, rebuilding the services, and reconfiguring everything has me putting it off. It’s running an AMD A6-5400k APU, the new target hardware will be Intel i7-7700k w/ a dedicated GPU. There’s also 4 storage HDDs and a small 128gb system SSD for the host attached.
Ive heard Linux ships with drivers for most everything it supports… so I’m wondering If I were to just swap the mobo/CPU/ram could I reasonably expect debian to “just work”, or are my hesitations right and I need to plan to reinstall the OS? Is there any way to back up the system and configuration to simply restore it after the new hardware is in? I’d really like any suggestions to make this as painless as possible! Thank you
I would not recommend swapping out major components without doing a new install. Linux installation is quite simple these days, so back up your configs and put them in place in the new installation.
If you run things in containers, these kinds of issues are not as relevant. You can run jellyfin in docker the same on any host and pass the GPU through for xcoding.
Unfortunately I don’t think there’s enough info to answer your question specifically.
I don’t use containers because I haven’t wrapped my head around docker lol. But I have thought maybe that portability could be worth implementing with the new hardware… right now it’s just the host system with jellyfin, a few *arr apps and supporting services installed through apt with their recommended repositories
Thank you though I will consider this approach. If I moved to docker, setting it up may be worth it to avoid this headache next time
So for a cheat code, check out “ansible-nas” on github. It will do all the heavy lifting for you.
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