Moving installation to Docker

Hosting Containers
#1

Hi everyone, could I ask for some advice; I currently have my setup on a Linux VM and have everything related to Channels on mnt/disk/Channels

I want to move this to a docker. Might be a silly question but on my docker compose file, under "volumes", I'm a bit confused what I need to pass through to the container, based on what I can see on the install page.

volumes:
    - /mnt/disk/dvr/config:/channels-dvr
    - /mnt/disk/dvr/recordings:/shares/DVR

I'm guessing

- /mnt/disk/Channels:/channels-dvr

Would be enough? But I have directories on the disk which have films and tv shows too?

#2

/mnt/disk/dvr/recordings:/shares/DVR is where your recordings are, with directories like
Database
Images
Imports
Logs
Movies
Streaming
TV

/mnt/disk/dvr/config:/channels-dvr is where the executables and log file are, with directories like
2024.07.27.2008
2024.08.08.0632
2024.08.18.0057
2024.08.20.0623
2024.08.26.0235
2024.08.30.1825
data
latest

You can find the directory in your current install by searching the Channels DVR log for [SYS] Starting Channels DVR

2024/09/03 08:48:19.361714 [SYS] Starting Channels DVR v2024.09.03.0452 (linux-x86_64 pid:17067) in /var/packages/ChannelsDVR/target/channels-dvr/data

In this example, it's located at /var/packages/ChannelsDVR/target/channels-dvr
On my Synology NAS, that's a symlink

# ls -l /var/packages/ChannelsDVR/target
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Aug 11  2023 /var/packages/ChannelsDVR/target -> /volume1/@appstore/ChannelsDVR

to /volume1/@appstore/ChannelsDVR/channels-dvr

#3

I guess my real question is do I have to be explicit and provide both of those or when I do a restore will channels dvr find the right directories if I show it a mount point which leads to all of the above?

I have a Channels directory with subdirectories annd all of the stuff you mentioned is in there.

#4

Yes
If you have everything in one directory, just volume map both of them (/shares/DVR and /channels-dvr) to that directory. You shouldn't have to do a restore if Channels DVR can see everything that exists now from inside the new container. So in your case

volumes:
    - /mnt/disk/Channels:/channels-dvr
    - /mnt/disk/Channels:/shares/DVR

And of course you'll have to change the DVR directory in the web UI
from /mnt/disk/Channels
to /shares/DVR
after moving it to the container

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#5

Ah, you're right I'm sorry I didn't realise there was another directory, I found that too.

Many thanks @chDVRuser !

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