The computer I’ve been running Plex on is getting long in the tooth and I wish to move my installation to another box (temporarily) which runs Linux Ubuntu. I wanted to know if copying the database files from my Windows installation over, having stopped the server on Linux would show me and my users…

You might want to start by having a look at this guide from the tips & tricks section [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Migration from another OS to Linux Cross OS migration is a multi-level process. Copy the PMS databases and metadata Update all the …

Thanks a lot for your quick response. I would have never considered some of the steps in that post and now that I’ve seen them they make perfect sense. I have two additional questions: I remember at some point having to take additional steps to ensure that my server could play HEVC content (most of…

I’m not aware of any special configurations for HEVC/4K playback to work. As for remote access – should be similar to your previous Windows setup; configuration will mostly depend on your router configuration.

To add to Tom80H Which Synology model are you moving to? Asking because you need at least a DSx18+ to transcode 2160P HEVC video. Subtitle burning is, of course, an entirely separate problem which nothing but a big Xeon/Ryzen Synology can handle in the CPU.

Thanks for your response, I was considering moving to a DS920+ since when I looked into the matter it turned out to have hardware transcoding available. I hadn’t settled on a one yet since another concern I have is available space. I’m still considering whether or not to get one with 5 or 6 bays bu…

So, I bit the bullet a few days ago. Biting the bullet sounds a little dangerous… That’s a weird expression. Anyway, I went ahead and did the migration. I faced a couple of issues that I was able to handle… At first it got stuck when building the library so I stopped and uninstalled. When I tried a…

“Bite the bullet” and “Pull the trigger” come from Western-style movies. Today, we have “bite sticks” for enduring pain (yes, there are such things) Permissions “777” (rwxrwxrwx) make sense when copying from NTFS. PMS default native app permissions are based on type (directory or file) [c…

Thanks @ChuckPa for your response, especially for the origins of biting the bullet. That’s going the extra mile (this reference I understand - and suddenly Captain America saying, “I do! I understood that reference” comes to mind). I have my server running smoothly again. I just moved the global mu…

you’ll get goofy behavior from Remote Access which will eventually report truth. I’m here to state that Remote Access now reports the truth. Without making any changes to my setup and taking it on faith that my server could be seen and accessed (and was just shy when reporting) it now has a check…

Migrating database from Windows to Linux and retain play history [Solved]

Plex Media Server

tom80H November 7, 2022, 10:45pm 2

You might want to start by having a look at this guide from the tips & tricks section

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