Best practice for Kometa nightly runs with large libraries so it doesnt need to rescan everything?

[gray matrix]

Hey all quick question on best practices for Kometa scheduling with large libraries. I run Kometa nightly at 3am and it ends up taking hours because i have rating overlays for every movie, show, and show episode. What I want nightly is just applying overlays/ratings to newly added movies or shows, not rechecking the entire library every day (full refresh weekly/monthly is fine). Is there a recommended way to limit nightly runs to new items only, or to split workloads? I like the episode level rating overlays but not it its going to take 9 hours everyday. Thanks.

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[tidal forge]

Kometa by design scans the entire library for changes, there's currently no way to only make it check new media

The only kind of splitting you can do is doing an individual run for each library, or scheduling your collections to run at a separate time than your overlays

[upper harbor]

And 3am is smack during the standard Plex maintenance.

Always start your kometa run after the plex maintenance end time. Default for plex maintenance is it ends at 5am… so stay kometa at 5am

While this does not address the original question, it’s preventative so you don’t end up with other strange things… plus you would likely save some time in your runs because plex is outside of maintenance period

[gray matrix]

ah thats smart. I appreciate it

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