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I have two Synology DS1019+ servers both running plex. There really hasn’t been to many issues other than I’m running out of space on one of the Servers. I would like to break up the movie collection between two servers with a single library. I don’t know if this is possible. I had seen some things that say no but then other convoluted methods to add a folder to another server. It didn’t explain how but I will see if I can get that figured out in the meantime. Is there any way to simply merge two libraries to make one if the folder locations are on two different servers?
You just need to map a remote folder on your main nas to the 2nd one. Then in plex manage the library, add the new folder. Anything the main nas can see, plex can use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul1Go2U-YWw
To add to the above.
NFS mounts are strongly recommended (These are Linux machines)
CIFS (SMB) mounts are very problematic between Linux hosts which speak “NFS” natively.
Thank you! I had been looking for this for a hot minute. I appreciate your help and I’ve got it going!
Thank you for your assistance. I got it going, I couldn’t get it to go to “NFS” mode and got the “CIFS” mode to work easily. I may try again later tomorrow and see if I can get it to work. Is it common for a lot of issues to occur from “CIFS”? Any suggestions, it kept saying could not connect so I’m thinking I may have just had a typo but failed a few times. I’ll defiantly keep on it.
NFS requires a few steps
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Enable the NFS services on both
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On the machine with the data you’re sharing (exporting), create the NFS export rule
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On the Syno where you’re mounting:
– Create a folder for the mount point (there to attach the other syno)
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do the mount (remount at start)
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Lastly, Open READ permissions on the other syno for Everyone so the data will come across the mount point
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When it’s done, the transition from local across NFS and back is transparent.
Here’s an example
Linux being strict about permissions is annoying at times. In these scenarios, it’s doubly annoying
