Migrate Plex Media Server from One Raspberry Pi to Another

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Hello,

I am currently running a PMS on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 32-bit Buster. I want to build a new server (on identical hardware) with 64-bit Bullseye and migrate all PMS settings, media, etc. over. Is there documentation available on how to do this?

Thanks.

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The process for moving an installation to another system is described in this support article:

In the step titled “Copy Server Data from the Source System” it would likely be a good idea to tar and gzip the entire Plex data folder so that you’re not attempting to copy tens of thousands of tiny files.

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You may just copy the HDD from one Pi to the other without making any changes. Clonezilla is a tool that can help you do this.

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If you’re using the default /var/lib/plexmediaserver location
and run as user pi,

cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver
sudo tar cf /path/to/save/metadata/PlexBackup.tar  .

now take to the new system

cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver
sudo tar xf /path/to/saved/metadata/PlexBackup.tar
sudo chown -R pi:pi .
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