One thing I wish I could do is that, I dont mind having to redownload all the metadata again for all my media, but I really wish there was a way to export it in a format that you could then import to a new plex server on a different OS.
I recently tried to migrate from a older mac mini (i3) to a new machine (i7) and I ended up having to do a hackintosh on the box because there was no way to export the data and have it work on the windows box, during the copy I got tons of errors and nothing seemed to work.
This can possibly be accomplished with the trakt plugin. Sync watched status to trakt on old server, then sync from trakt to new server. I don’t know how well it works because I kept getting an error when I tried. It may be due to the size of my library, and the request timing out.
Hello
Sorry to bump this old topic out, but I was wondering if there is now a simple way of doing that ?
I am thinking of installing again my plexserver but I am afraid to loose my watched status when rebuilding the database ?
Z.
Have you already tried this:
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Hi Pugnator and thanks for answering.
On the page you mention they talk about SQLite.
I went to try to download but I got a file sqlite3.dll, not sure what I have to do with it.
There is another zip file called sqlite-tools, should I use this ?
They mention I have to do
echo ".dump metadata_item_settings" | sqlite3 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db | grep -v TABLE | grep -v INDEX > settings.sql
to export database and
cat settings.sql | sqlite3 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db
to import it.
But not sure where I have to type this ? In cmd ?
Z.
Hi,
They have to integrate it into the settings menu. There should be something so you can shedule backups of your watched history and manual download it.
They should team up with trakt.tv or get there own Plex Watched Service so you can sync it, that would be even better.
Just copy the whole .DB file to the new server.
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented
