I have to rebuild Plex in a couple of weeks when my dying Synology NAS gets sent back and replaced for a working one (one that doesn’t keep rebooting). I have a backup of all my media already (TV and Film) but how do I backup all my settings? And if separate the preferences I have used in defining what films are in what order and what posters I have changed them to?
If the later is not possible without backing up all the media as well then just the Settings (the ones you define in the Settings section of your Plex system) would be great.
Once I’ve rebuilt the new NAS and installed Plex I’ll copy the media over and need to restore the settings please.
I have to rebuild Plex in a couple of weeks when my dying Synology NAS gets sent back and replaced for a working one (one that doesn’t keep rebooting). I have a backup of all my media already (TV and Film) but how do I backup all my settings? And if separate the preferences I have used in defining what films are in what order and what posters I have changed them to?
If the later is not possible without backing up all the media as well then just the Settings (the ones you define in the Settings section of your Plex system) would be great.
Once I’ve rebuilt the new NAS and installed Plex I’ll copy the media over and need to restore the settings please.
TIA
Super short and easy way to backup your settings and everything
Control Panel - Shared Folders - Edit the Plex share
@lj0001 said:
You know I said I didn’t want to backup the media right?
absolutely… the link shows how to move the folder(s) containing your database and other offline content which isn’t your actual media (posters, background images, metadata, trailers?).
As per @ChuckPA’s statement: This folder is on its own share within your NAS so you can follow his instruction to unhide it, zip it and migrate it.
Thanks for the clarity all. The Plex share wasn’t used by any media but I was surprised to see it taking up 10GB so decided against doing it that way. In the end I took screenshots of the settings and decided not do to anything else. It would be good if Plex could create a better way to backup the config of the server in the future though. It certainly doesn’t need to be GBs worth of data. I expect it’s full of all the pictures/images/text relating to the all movies and TV shows but that can be automatically downloaded again once the server is rebuilt surely? Just backup the config and any manually downloaded/added images is all that’s needed.
Anyway, in the end I didn’t need to worry about it as the reason I was looking to do this was because my Synology DS1515+ NAS with 5 raided HDDs kept rebooting so after logging a call with Synology they swapped it (removing the HDDs and extra RAM first) free of charge with no quibble. Amazed at the customer services to be honest. I sent it off on Monday and received a brand new one today. I put the hard drives and RAM in and booted it up and to my surprise when I logged into it it said it found a configuration from a previous build and did I want to use it. I said yes and within a few minutes not only was the NAS back up and running (using all the settings I had given it’s predecessor) but so was my Plex server!
I expected to have to at least create a new RAID 5 across my disks and copy all my movies and TV shows back over but that wasn’t needed. Very impressed and considering the NAS was over 2 years old I didn’t think it would still be under any warranty. One up for Synology!
thanks anyway though.
thanks anyway though