Can Someone Please Point Me To The Tutorial On Moving The Data Folder To Another Location?

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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i need to move my plex server files to a different partition so when i do a aptik backup they aren’t copied, cause the tend to make the aptik backup huge and take what seems like forever to backup. i know there is a tutorial for linux on the forum, just not sure what to look for. thanks

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AMD FX 6300, Asus 970 Gaming/Aura, Samsung 120 Gig 850 EVO, 16Gig DDR3,
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SATA 1TB, 750 & 500Gig Drives, USB 3 2TB & 1.5TB Drives

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https://support.plex.tv/articles/201154537-move-media-content-to-a-new-location/

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He probably meant Moving Metadata on Windows

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His system is linux, so maybe this one:

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no i did not mean windows. as you ca see i am not running windows.

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i should of also asked about reducing the size of the plex folder(s). in windows with help from here i was able yo make adjustments to plex’s settings and drop plex from over 6 gigs down to jujut over 3 gigs. it’s just been a good while since i setup plex on windows that i don’t even begin to know what i can and cannot change in the settings to reduce plex’s footprint on the system.

the above is a bit more involved than i’m currently comfortable with. maybe like i asked the creator of aptik maybe we can create a file to force aptik to skip backup plex. doing this should hurt the aptik backup, cause aptik is capable seeing errors and working around them.

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If I may augment here.

The basic steps are:

  1. Create a new directory where you want to house the metadata
  2. Transfer from current location to the new location (tar usually works best)
  3. Verify ownership of the new location
  4. Modify the service and inform it of the new metadata location.
  5. Restart

This is how Systemd works.
The alternative is to change your system installation or use another OS

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Chuck’s post and link resolved my server problems. Instead of tar I just did a “cp -aR [src-SSD] [dst-HD]” then followed his link “Move the local application data folder to another harddrive” to change Plex config information. My system is now working as intended after a “rm -rf [src-SSD]”. Thanks @ChuckPa !

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