Server Version#: 1.18.6.2368
Player Version#: Version 4.20.2?
Apologies if this has been covered, but I have read conflicting information, or information which has confused me.
I was upgrading from 1.19 to 1.20 over the weekend and the database appeared to get corrupt and I lost the “config” behind my libaries, the folders of shows went, films were a jumble, artwork was gone etc, long story short, several removals and adding of different versions of plex to the readynas and some help from an FB group and I have the library up and running almost as before.
This got me to thinking of backing up the “config” of plex should this happen again.
I have read https://support.plex.tv/articles/201539237-backing-up-plex-media-server-data/ which implies I need to just take a copy of the preferences.xml file having taken this and then had a read of the contents of the file, I dont believe this has all the details of the libraries etc to be used as a restore source should I need to.
I then read about restoring a server from https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/?_ga=2.21185851.1063091013.1598720533-1817801271.1595525282 and could see various items being asked for which were not the preferences.xml file
What I am hoping for is some guidance on what and how best to backup the “server” so that if I needed to I could remove the plex app and install it again, and then restore the setup of the server so it would run as it did prior to outage should one occur, and I not be in the position I was this weekend of fighting to get the server running again.
On a sidenote once the various items have been identified and backed up, could I use them to migrate platforms if in the future I was to move from the Netgear NAS box to a Windows plex server?
Many thanks
James