Changing NAS-Server

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 :slight_smile:

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:

  1. Stop Plex
  2. SSH into the existing
  3. cd to the QPKG directory containing PMS cd /share/*/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer
  4. ls -la to verify it’s the correct one (date time stamp)
  5. create a tar file of the Library tar cf /share/xxxxxx/PlexBackup.tar ./Library
  6. Copy that tar file to the new machine
  7. Install Plex on the new machine
  8. Stop Plex
  9. Get into SSH again and into the Plex directory cd /share/*/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer
  10. Move the Library created during install out of the way mv Library Library.unused (you can delete later)
  11. Extract the backup and have the new assume the identity of the old tar xf /path/to/PlexBackup.tar
  12. Start Plex.
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