As a Plex user with thousands of files on my server, I often face challenges when changing computers or recovering from drive failures. Currently, I’m in the process of transitioning to a new computer, and it took nearly a day to compress 700,000 files (73 GB) from the Plex Media Server directory, f…

Vote here: [image] Make transferring server to new machine simple and easy Feature Suggestions I suggest a simple solution to moving your library to a new machine. I don’t understand why it has to be so difficult. Plex needs an option for users to easily bundle their nece…

[image] kurtedward: it took nearly a day to compress 700,000 files (73 GB) from the Plex Media Server directory, followed by another day to decompress them I think it would be faster to simply copy the whole Plex data folder . I swapped machines a year ago and the copy took under two hours ov…

Backup and restore function

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Backup and restore function

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