# Backup server with Git, which files to track?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-server-with-git-which-files-to-track/575157>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** other-dev\
**Created:** [April 16, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-server-with-git-which-files-to-track/575157 "2020-04-16T04:53:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![baruchiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/baruchiro/32/183263_2.png) [@baruchiro](https://forums.plex.tv/u/baruchiro)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-server-with-git-which-files-to-track/575157/1 "2020-04-16T04:53:39Z")

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Hi, I have a `docker-compose` file to compose all my home systems.  
I want to track my home-server settings with git, to be able to move to another device, and launch all my systems.

So after I starting the Plex server, I’m getting a lot of config files. Of course, I added the `Cache` dir to the `.gitignore`, but still, I have a lot of files, and I don’t think I need them when I’m moving to another device.  
By saying “moving to another device” I mean to save **the settings only** , all the media library, and other things that Plex can regenerate, I don’t want to backup.

So which files (as minimal as possible) should I need to track?

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**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-server-with-git-which-files-to-track/575157/2 "2020-04-16T06:12:17Z")

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I’m not sure what settings you are looking wanting to keep but Advanced server settings which has the things that identifies the server is in the Preferences.xml, Library settings are in the database and agent settings are a bunch of XML files in metadata folders.

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**Author:** ![baruchiro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/baruchiro/32/183263_2.png) [@baruchiro](https://forums.plex.tv/u/baruchiro)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-server-with-git-which-files-to-track/575157/3 "2020-04-16T14:44:25Z")

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Bad news… so I have to backup my database in order to save the libraries location and config…

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**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-server-with-git-which-files-to-track/575157/4 "2020-04-16T16:36:00Z")

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The server does that on it’s own already if you have it enabled. [https://support.plex.tv/articles/201553286-scheduled-tasks/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201553286-scheduled-tasks/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/backup-server-with-git-which-files-to-track/575157/5 "2020-07-15T16:36:07Z")

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