Migrate Plex data form QNAP to another QNAP

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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  1. /share/CACHEDEVx_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer will exist somewhere if you’ve installed PMS on that host.

  2. You cannot transfer the server from one host to another until PMS is installed on that host.

  3. Once installed on both –
    – Create the PlexData shared folder as shown in the below How-To
    – It’s important PMS be started and then stopped once after creating the shared folder (it populates the locations for you)

  4. Now make a backup (ZIP) of the contents of “PlexData/Plex Media Server” (you must get into the Plex Media Server directory to see all files and subfolders)

  5. When the ZIP is complete, transport it to the same directory on the new machine

  6. UNZIP it

  7. At this point, you will have cloned server 1.
    – If you want to change this and make a “server 2” with the same data,
    – DELETE “Preferences.xml”
    – Start PMS
    – Claim it

Make sense?