Server Version#: 3.77.4
Player Version#: various Roku, xBox, PS4, Android phones
The Short Version Of The Need…
The Library Has Grown Out Of Control
The Long Version Of The Need…
The server is powerful enough to host up 11 concurrent users, well that’s the most I’ve ever had. Usually, its 1 or 2 local users and 3 to 4 remote users. Its a dual Xeon with 32GB of ram roughly about 80TB of video files, both Movies & TV files. most of the files are various qualities of the same files, 1080p for local 720p for remote.
What I want to do is move the TV Shows (which are mostly direct play) to their own machine. In doing so I would like to keep the history information for all the current 5 users. I do not plan on retiring the original server just removing the TV shows from it.
BTW - the TV shows are on 5x8TB portable drives, while the movies are on 2x20TB internal RAID drives.
So after all that my question is, is it possible and is that a realistic expectation, to split the 1 server to 2 individual ones ?
PlexServer = PlexMovies + PlexTV
I suppose the instructions you found are actually your solution.
And as you figured… except for the “terminating the old one” part. However… it’ll be important to give the new server a new name. Until you have done that, you should indeed shut the original server down.
Once this is done, both should run just fine in parallel and you can delete the not required libraries from both servers respectively.
What about the server identifier? Will that be removed/refreshed by the “Logout and back in”?
Sign Out and Back in to the Server
Under Settings > Server > General in Plex Web App, sign out of the server (if you’re signed in) and then sign back in. This will update connection information for your apps to use and will also ensure you have a valid certificate to make use of secure connections.
Instead of moving all the plex data, you can setup the server on the new machine.
Create a small test library to see if it works in general.
Then shut down both the original server and the new one (important!)
Then copy the main database file (yes, just one file) from the old to the new machine.
This will transfer the ‘played’ statistics for all your users.
All the metadata need to be fetched again, all the preview thumbnails need to be regenerated.
If you on the other hand prefer to first ‘clone’ your old server completely:
You need to delete the server identifier from the copied server configuration or else you will see major weirdness.
Here’s how: Different PCs Using Same Machine ID
So I ran into the situation where coping all the files was difficult because the folder is over 167GB in size. The current server has 512GB SSD while the new one only 128GB.
So AnyWhoo - Your suggestion seems to get to the root of my goal. I’m going to try it tonight and hopefully it will work as expected.
Your suggestion seems to get to the root of my goal. I’m going to try it tonight and hopefully it will work as expected.
