I would like to setup another Plex Media Server as a fail over in case the primary stops working.
Recently needed to reinstall the Media Server on my QNAP NAS and lost the database as a result. Which is inconvenient as once I have rescanned all the media back in, I then need to reset those that have been watched.
The scheduled backup is a great option, another would be a restore which I could not find anywhere on the web interface.
Suggestions and comments appreciated
Thanks
There is no officially supported way to do that.
You could experiment with the trakt.tv plugin, which not only ‘scrobbles’ all playback to trakt.tv but also synchronises them back to your server(s). Which then provides the means to bring the watched/unwatched status of both servers into sync.
This of course only works if you are using the defautl plex agents and don’t just use “Home video” libraries which don’t ‘match’ the video files.
Or you are using something like rsync to simply mirror the Plex data folder from server 1 to server 2 some time in the night.
But this requires both servers to be setup the same way
and also requires some Plex server downtime while the rsync process runs. (otherwise it will fail to copy the database file intact)
