# Backup / Restore for server, Sync between Linux and Windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** server-windows, server-linux\ **Created:** [August 9, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-restore-for-server-sync-between-linux-and-windows/621977 "2020-08-09T11:52:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![IsaiahSellassie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@IsaiahSellassie](https://forums.plex.tv/u/IsaiahSellassie)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-restore-for-server-sync-between-linux-and-windows/621977/1 "2020-08-09T11:52:33Z")
Request 1: On my Linux system (Ubuntu 18.04) I lost my whole music library recently, while adding two new folders. The new folders were 329 files, 100 Gb and 188 files, 76 Gb in size. This emptied the library, and showed me a blank page. A lot of time and labor spent fixing album art and meta tags was lost. No warnings, no delete confirmations, nothing. Poof! Gone. I _really_ do not want this to happen again. This server had been running for 2+ years, although almost never used. The point is to use it from outside the home network. Inside the LAN I don’t need it. Now one of my family members is actually using it from a different location. I need a built-in backup and restore tool to recover from crashes of this sort. Request 2: I installed Plex on a Windows 7 system so I have redundant streaming capacity. The two servers present the same, identical libraries with quite different appearances. For example, Linux says there are 2903 artists, and Windows says there are 2230. (Foobar 2000 says there are 3339.) Both have album art setting on ‘Local files only’ yet Linux has around 5% of the albums displayed correctly, and Windows has around 95% looking correct. I want these two servers to synchronize so that the client side experience is exactly the same, regardless of which one is logged into. There are some other things re: the UI. I would like the defaults to be tweakable, and switchable. I need two lines for album titles. I would switch off the date line to make space. I have multiple versions, tagged with distinct titles — e.g. Kind of Blue (Mono), Kind of Blue (Japan), Kind of Blue (Remaster), Kind of Blue (1st Press Vinyl), etc. At present, all of them are displayed as ‘Kind of Blue’. Another is, I want classical music, but _only_ classical music to be sorted by Artist rather than Album Artist. I have the composer’s name in the Artist tag, and the performers’ in the Album Artist tag. At present it shows me something like ‘Symphony No. 2’ played by ‘Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony’ — I need it to show me ‘Rachmaninov’ and ‘Symphony No. 2’ instead. I want this sort of thing to be customized. I don’t mind seeing 3 lines of text. Or, it could show me a detailed view of the item on hover. The Search function also needs to become more thorough. Foobar 2000 always finds many more files than Plex. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-restore-for-server-sync-between-linux-and-windows/621977/2 "2020-08-09T13:08:11Z")
## Request 1: This already exists. [https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/) ## Request 2 There’s already a feature suggestion for this > [@\[Feature Request\] Server to Server Sync](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-server-to-server-sync/136879): > > I did a search and so far haven’t seen this one. I have a friend who lives in Africa and she doesn’t have enough BW to stream from my server but her boy friend set up a Plex server on an old laptop and they can afford Plex Pass. Could we enable shared libraries to be synced from server to server? There would have to be some sort of sanity to the sync, maybe a throttle mechanic or/and a time period where it can go crazy and use all the BW and then throttle back down when people would be awake. … Please search before posting duplicate requests in order to avoid distracting votes. PS: also… please stick with the guidelines for the feature suggestion category and go with 1 suggestion per post. Otherwise otherwise won’t find your ideas and therefore won’t vote for them. > [@Please Read: Before submitting a feature Suggestion](https://forums.plex.tv/t/about-the-feature-suggestions-category/273976): > > You can raise feature suggestions so that we know what you want in the product. We love hearing from you and we are always looking for ideas to make Plex more awesome. Here’s a quick guide to submitting feature suggestions and how voting works: BEFORE YOU SUBMIT A FEATURE SUGGESTIONS search on our forums to see if there are any suggestions similar to your need. If so, build upon this ask by adding your thoughts. Vote on the topic if you like the idea. If not, submit a new feature suggestions.… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-restore-for-server-sync-between-linux-and-windows/621977/3 "2020-08-09T13:08:21Z")
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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-restore-for-server-sync-between-linux-and-windows/621977/4 "2021-06-10T14:15:47Z")