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Backups and restoring

Every Apply saves a backup of Jellyfin's settings before changing anything. Open Backups to see them, newest first, with the date and size.

  1. Find the backup made just before the change you want to undo, and click Restore.
  2. Reelhost asks Replace current settings? Click Restore again.
  3. Reelhost stops Jellyfin, puts its settings back, and starts it again.

Restore also puts back what Reelhost changed outside Jellyfin since that backup: its firewall rule, the plugged-in sleep timer, how Jellyfin starts (as a service or when you sign in), the TV guide task, and the router, firewall and HTTPS parts of your web address. Your watchhome.app name stays yours.

A restore returns everything to that moment, not one fix at a time. To keep some fixes, restore, then apply those again. Your media files are never changed, so they're never part of a backup.

With Emby: restoring a backup from before the Web port fix puts Jellyfin back on Emby's port, where it can't start. Reelhost tells you. Run the Check-up and apply the Web port fix again.

Still stuck? Click Get help at the bottom of Reelhost's sidebar, or ask us in your account. All help topics.