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TrueNAS Jellyfin cloud backup

This is a way to do an automated cloud backup of your Jellyfin database using TrueNAS Cloud Sync Tasks. Requires Jellyfin 10.10 or above.

Create a PUSH+SYNC task and selected your prefered cloud remote
Select /<jellyfin-dataset>/data/backups as source

Add a pre-script to create the backup

curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"Database":true,"Metadata":false,"Trickplay":false,"Subtitles":false}' \
  "http://<jellyfin-server>/Backup/Create?ApiKey=<jellyfin-token>"

Add a post-script to remove the backup (this could be modified to keep X backups)
```
rm -f /<jellyfin-dataset>/data/backups/*
```

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