Hi There
At the Moment i am running Plex on my “very old” QNAP-Station. As the QNAP is very old, i will exchange it in the future. (Security and Speed reason) I have done a lot of “Special” addings and assignments of all my music’s and movies. Is there a possibility to save this data and move it to the new server? Or do i need to to the same work again? I will copy the whole storage “one to one” to the new QNAP. (or i have planned to do that)
Thanks for your Ideas
You should be able to copy the Plex data directory from your old NAS to it successor.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/202915258-where-is-the-plex-media-server-data-directory-located/
The process is very simple:
- Stop Plex
- SSH into the existing
-
cd
to the QPKG directory containing PMScd /share/*/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer
-
ls -la
to verify it’s the correct one (date time stamp) - create a tar file of the Library
tar cf /share/xxxxxx/PlexBackup.tar ./Library
- Copy that tar file to the new machine
- Install Plex on the new machine
- Stop Plex
- Get into SSH again and into the Plex directory
cd /share/*/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer
- Move the Library created during install out of the way
mv Library Library.unused
(you can delete later) - Extract the backup and have the new assume the identity of the old
tar xf /path/to/PlexBackup.tar
- Start Plex.
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