I am running plex docker on ubuntu.
The last couple of days, I’ve seen signs that the SSD that holds operating system and library is starting to fail, so I imagine I will be setting the box up with a new drive within short time.
As I have a backup server that is identical, I assume I won’t need to stress the drive with backing up up the entire library, as I can take that from the second server.
What I do want is the server settings (Preferences.xml) and watched status etc.
Is it sufficient to back up Preferences.xml and com.plexapp.plugins.library.db for this operation, and grab the rest of the metadata\library from the backup server?
Take advantage of its innate features and export the container.
It makes its own backup of itself.
When you import it, it will return just as you had it.
the config is stored outside of the docker and mounted into it.
This is the part that takes up alot of space, and consists of several thousand files (which would also take some hours to back up).
I figured I would leave that part of the library alone to avoid stressing the drive since I can get that part from the other server where the OS drive isn’t failing.
