Users with an active Plex Pass subscription have access to the “Scheduled Tasks” feature. One of the benefits of this is that it can keep some backup copies of your core database, which holds things such as your viewstate information.
The fact that PMS generates backup copies is great, but in case of a hardware failure the backup copies are still located on the same host / disk hosting plex.
It would be great if pms / cloud sync could be enhanced with the feature of synchronizing the backup copies to a cloud service such as box or dropbox.
This doesn’t need to be built into Plex at all. You can automate this yourself.
You can select the folder you want plex to put the back ups into. Just select the folder you sync to your cloud service, and the back ups will get moved there automatically during the normal sync process. When you restore it, you are going to need to make sure you have PMS turned off, restore from your sync folder and then start Plex again.
Depending on the cloud service you can delete the file after it’s synced, so you don’t have to maintain a local copy, if space is a worry. You will have to research which service allows you to do this yourself. Personally, I don’t use any cloud services. I prefer to host my own files myself rather than risk someone else maintaining my file’s security. I use OwnCloud for cloud storage.
I understand, and I am doing something similar already.
But given that I am running plex on a host which isn’t connected to a monitor, and is running a minimal installation of CentOS It would be convenient to be able to manage this from the Plex web administration page.
Rather than having to install or build the dropbox client.
I understand that if you run Plex on osx or windows, and you are having a GUI, that you can just right click on the folder to sync it with a cloud service, but if you are running it on a NAS / SAN you probably don’t want to add additional software.
And since Plex is already able to sync content to box / dropbox it I think it would be nice to enhance cloud sync with this feature.
