Requesting tips/tricks or helpful insight when inheriting a Jellyfin setup
TL;DR: I am soon inheriting a setup of Jellyfin to help assist in maintenance for an abrupt loss of a friend and am asking for tips and tricks to aid in that endeavor!
A bit of a sad post but a friend's sister's husband abruptly passed about a week ago. After the sister got back to the house she realized that she has no idea how to maintain the Jellyfin server that the husband stood up.
That friend has asked me to help them maintain the server as their entire family uses it routinely. It has been described to me that he was extremely proud of this achievement and is one of the things that they cherish regarding the late husband.
I want to help out in the maintenance of this to try and make sure that this stays up and running for them for years to come. Part of that is (and it's been requested) that I help teach the sister how to do some basic tasks once I have gotten familiar with the server.
Currently what I know about the Jellyfin instance here is that it's a decent sized library, and has some automation built into it as various members of the family can request some media and it gets added to the library. I assume this is with Jellyseer or something to that effect. Other than that I don't know much else.
For some background I am a Systems Administrator in my day job and I have a decent stack at home for a homelab. Currently I use the *arr suite and Plex and am planning to migrate this year to Jellyfin once my yearly Plex pass is up (I didn't cancel it in time and it renewed another year); so at least I'm not coming into this entirely blind!
With that in mind I'll be poking around his build as much as I can to try and reverse engineer how he set it up.
What I'm asking is if you were in a similar situation, and needed to take over someone else' instance, how would you go about getting familiar with the setup? Are there any .confs that I should look for, or any basic tricks/quick fixes that you've learned for your own instance that I can show the sister to try first before I get involved, etc.?
Any help with this is appreciated and there are no wrong answers! I am just trying to get ahead of this very unfortunate curveball and help out in the best way that I can! Thank everyone so much in advance!