I had a few starts and stops, so to speak, during my inital media server setup.
Now for a little backgraound information, My wife likes to keep everything tidy.
Meaning she will select cover art for each program based on the way she wants it to look. Also, she edits the search titles to put certain things in the order that she wants them. Such as items in a series that do not list chronologically as they would alphabetically.
Each time I migrated the system, all of her work has been lost.
And, each day the content library continues to grow.
Is there a cut and dried way to select the appropriate files and place them in a backup sequence so that I might preseve the media server in it’s current state?
As time goes by I dread the tme that something happens to that server and I need to tell her to start all over again.
Additionally, Stop/end/quit the plex server on the source system before starting the copy of the Plex data folder.
Make the destination system the very same in regards to folder names and drive letters like the old one. Otherwise the move will be only partly successful.
If the old server has found movie A on drive letter S: in subfolder Movies/Movie A then it has to be the same on the new computer.
In preparation of future moves, you could use a dedicated hard drive just for the Plex data folder. You can then move the whole drive physically to the new machine.
If you, for whatever reason have to change drive letters and/or folder/file names, you will have to edit the plex database manually:
But even then manual poster assignments may get lost.
