2025-11-26 11:22:41theophile:
link to discussion on ignoring metadata folder
sauvegarde et restoration/procédure de sauvegarde individuelles.md ..
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>The Backup system will check for at least 4GB of free space in the backup folder where backups a written to. However this can easily not be enough if you also backup Subtitles and Trickplay so ensure you have enough free space there. The Backup folder is located within your Jellyfin data directory which is located in
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[Jellyfin Docker Backup Without Metadata](https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-jellyfin-docker-backup-without-metadata) → we can apparently safely ignore the `metadata` folder, which is the largest folder in `config`.
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**Restore**
> To restore from a Backup you can either use the webUI by navigating to the same view as for the step above and clicking on the restore button in the list of backups, or you can start jellyfin with the `--restore-archive PATH_TO_BACKUP_ZIP` argument. Note that when you start a restore from the webUI, you server will immediately restart for this process to take place and will be unavailable for that time.