I started this whole plex use on a freenas jail. It has gone great for the past two years. Recently Freenas gave the ability to natively run Linux VMs. Given my work experience is 100%, i jumped at that opportunity.
I setup the 2nd plex instance running on ubuntu and it is working perfectly.
Now the problem is I have 5 playlists I need to migrate before i completely shut down the old Freenas VM.
Anyone went through this use case that can guide me?
Thanks
Anyone can help with this?
Did you just setup a new instance of Plex or did you do a migration like in https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201370363-Move-an-Install-to-Another-System ?
Thanks gbooker02 for replying. I setup a new instance of Plex.
I read through the migration article. There are no references of what to do if the source is Freenas. I was hoping there would be just a few files that i need to copy to the new server
I see that FreeNAS is missing from the list of locations (edit: It’s there now). Since the logs are contained within a subdirectory of the database directory, this article has the location you need: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250417-Plex-Media-Server-Log-Files I have personally used the instructions in the article in my previous post to move from Ubuntu -> FreeNAS plugin and then again later to a FreeNAS generic jail.
The problem with just migrating the playlists is they are stored in the main database within that directory and reference other items by their ID. Since you started with a new instance of Plex, the ids are almost certainly different in the new instance than the old, meaning the playlist cannot be simply transferred to the new instance.
I’d suggest shutting down the new instance of Plex, rename the data directory (to preserve it in case something goes wrong), and do the migration mentioned above. Then if you are satisfied with the migration, you can remove the renamed data directory.
Thanks gbooker02. I will use that method
