Back up on the cloud?

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So, I have my plex server on my mac mini.
Usually I run Mac OS Betas on this computer.

I had a problem with one version and I had to bring the computer to apple store. The fixed it but I had a week without my computer.
So I’ve decided to install plex server on another one.

The issue was that I’ve lost all the configurations, and specially the history of content watched. (I have more than 12 TB on a NAS server).

So I was wondering, is there anyway to use the cloud to keep this information?
Of course I could use dropbox, iCloud, etc. But I was wondering anything native from plex.

Thanks in advance for the answers.

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You can always back up Plex’s “Library” data in a tar file and then store the tar file.

IIRC, on OS X, the path would be ~plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server to get to where Plex really starts. Grabbing it at ~plex/Library would be easiest and how it’s done on Linux.

The tricks here:

  1. Backup only when PMS is stopped (not running)
  2. Don’t restore on top of existing files (move anything existing out of the way)
  3. Get the ownership and permissions right when you restore.
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I know, and actually I had several backups in time machine.
My question or may be suggestion is to use the cloud to do it.

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Running PMS, with your ‘live data’ in the cloud but PMS executable local? That’s not really a good idea if you think about it.

As a test. ping your NAS and look at the average ping time in milliseconds. Now do the same to any of Amazon’s servers. Do the math. That’s the slowdown you’ll see if PMS’s data is in the cloud but executables are local. That problem is what Plex Cloud is solving (when amazon sorts their end). Server & data in the cloud at ‘commercial / enterprise’ bandwith rates between huge disk farms / data centers.

The per-request latency will kill you. On local gigabit to a NAS you can see the difference. Running PMS’s data on the NAS is ‘invisible’ if the NAS has it on SSD cache.

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May be I’m not explaining my problem.
I don’t want to move the content of my NAS to the cloud. I have a DS1815+ and the performance is great.

What I was thinking on using the cloud, for storage only is the configuration of the PMS.
May be I can do a daily backup, it doesn’t have to be more than that.

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Ok. Now I think I am in sync. I apologize. Our DS1815’s give us a lot of flexibility.

What you want to do is very straight forward. It’s built into Hyperbackup :slight_smile:

Create a backup task to backup the contents of the share “Plex” to the cloud. Plex stores its configuration and everything it knows about your media there. Configure the backup however you wish. For purposes of backup speed, I would recommend you don’t use the ‘file copy’ types of backup (TONS of small files that would take forever). Let it create it’s normal ‘buckets’ and push them to the cloud.