Just moved to a new house and feel the urge and need to hard reset my computer that the plex server is located on. I am unsure of the proper way to back up my server and its settings since I share it with others. I really don’t want to lose all of that information and in reading forums, I don’t really understand the lingo. Would like a dumbed-down tutorial on how to properly do it.
The following does only take care of the “Plex” data.
You will have to back up your media files separately.
1)
Do you have a second hard drive in this computer?
Or perhaps at least a separate partition on the hard drive, which can be spared from the “big delete”?
If you do, follow this article to move the Plex data folder to the other drive: [HowTo] An extended guide on how to move the Plex data folder on Windows
2)
save the contents of the Plex branch of the Windows registry (Important. If you don’t, you’ll have to re-share your libraries to all shared users)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server
Export this branch into a .reg file (hint: right-click)
3)
unplug the hard drive with the plex data folder on it from the machine
Just a safety measure, to make double-sure that the Windows reset doesn’t mangle these data.
4)
perform the Windows reset
5)
re-attach your media storage. Make sure that each of the media files is available under the same Network address / drive letter / folder path / file name as before!
6)
import the .reg file (double-click) which was saved in step 2
7)
download and install Plex Media Server
8)
Reboot Windows
To answer the first question… yes all of my files are located on a separate hard drive. In reading the attached link as to how to migrate my plex data to the dedicated hard drive I am a little lost and confused. I am not as tech-savvy as I probably should be so I truly need it dumbed down further which is probably annoying for you but if you could possibly give me an easier to understand step by step?
Sorry, it can’t be simplified further.
Maybe you should just make a backup copy of the plex data folder and the registry branch.
See https://support.plex.tv/articles/201539237-backing-up-plex-media-server-data/
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