# Dual plex server

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/dual-plex-server/237058>\
**Category:** Plex Pass Betas\
**Created:** [May 29, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dual-plex-server/237058 "2018-05-29T23:25:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![abidu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@abidu](https://forums.plex.tv/u/abidu)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dual-plex-server/237058/1 "2018-05-29T23:25:09Z")

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I’ve been trying to setup another server (under the same account) located in another country hosted on another server but for some reason I can’t set up the 2nd server and keep thinking both the primary and secondary are the same.

OS for both servers: Debian  
Plex Version: 1.13.0.5023

Am I doing anything wrong ?

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dual-plex-server/237058/2 "2018-05-29T23:39:35Z")

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you haven’t actually told us what you were doing in order to setup your 2nd server… so hard to tell what you had been doing wrong 😉

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**Author:** ![systemshark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/systemshark/32/4387_2.png) [@systemshark](https://forums.plex.tv/u/systemshark)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dual-plex-server/237058/3 "2018-06-06T13:36:31Z")

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Make sure the actual server names are different, Plex doesn’t like two servers with same Plex Server Name.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dual-plex-server/237058/4 "2018-06-06T14:28:31Z")

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And never, ever run a second server with the backed-up configuration data of the first server.

Or if you need to, you have to perform some steps on your ‘copy’ server first, or any plex client will get severely confused:

> **[I want to backup my Genre tags from one server and restore them onto a new...](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1641214/#Comment_1641214)**
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> The only thing you could do is to: ‘clone’ your server, Thereby making sure that all media files are available on the new server under the same address/path name/drive letter as they were on the old server. ...

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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:** [January 8, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dual-plex-server/237058/5 "2020-01-08T01:36:58Z")

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