Backup of Plex settings

Plex Media Server
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I’ve recently experienced a nasty hardware failure; power supply failed, and apparently took the motherboard/CPU and all 3 hard drives with it.
I didn’t lose any other data or recorded content in libraries, I know where that is and had it backed up with a cron job to an external storage location.

But I lost all the server settings, programs to record and such.

The docs ( https://support.plex.tv/articles/202915258-where-is-the-plex-media-server-data-directory-located/ ) indicate /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ as the location. So, I’ve added /var/lib/plexmediaserver/ to my backup cron job; will be backed up daily along with everything else.

Is there any other location I should back up? My goal is in future rebuilds/crashes/etc to just re-install Plex and then restore that directory from backup. Theoretically, if that’s the only location, I should recover everything.

Are there any other bits and pieces I need to back up?

This is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and the most recent public channel server release.

Thanks in advance.

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That’s about it – you can skip the Caches and Logs subfolders. Make sure your server is stopped when backing this folder up. Otherwise you’re at risk of ending up with a corrupted database backup.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201539237-backing-up-plex-media-server-data/

Keep in mind your server will automatically create a backup of your database as part of the scheduled tasks (if enabled). Sometimes it could be enough to backup those files…
https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/

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