I am beginning to have a lot of plex media on my external hard drive. I want to get another external drive and use as a backup so I don’t lose all my media. My plan was to pretty much copy and paste to the new drive. My only concern is if I copy, for example my movies folder, and a few days later I add more media to my library, can I just copy the folder and paste to my new hard drive without it doubling up. I hope I explained that right… if you understand what I mean please help me out or provide me a faster easier way to backup. I plan to back up constantly at least once a week.
What OS are you running?
If on Linux or Mac, you could run RSync, and if on Windows RoboCopy
Both at scheduled intervals would take care of it
Windows 10
Then go with RoboCopy, as I linked towards in my former post
Thank you… looking into robocopy… now if I use robocopy to add my media to a new drive, and say next week I want to add more and copy all media again, is robocopy smart enough to know to only copy the new media I just added or will it copy all of my media again and create doubles?
Yes, it’s a sync tool
If you need it with a nice GUI, try https://freefilesync.org/
Cool thanks man … I read that there is a script I can create. Any links you can provide for that?
Nope, but guess something like this might work, but untested, since on Linux here:
taskkill /f /im Plex*
robocopy c:\SourceDir d:\TargetDir /MIR /FFT /Z /XA:H /W:5
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Media Server.exe"
If only the media are to be saved (as opposed to the Plex data), then there is no need to close Plex before starting the backup.
I think OP wants to mirror the Library Directory, which includes the locked databases
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