Migrating plex from synology to ubuntu 24.04

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.42.

I wanted to migrate my plex server from my old synology to a new ubuntu. To get more performance. Followed the guide and now I am stuck with none. My new installation is not working because of no access ?? Local server is not shown of I have no access at all.. But even worse!! my old server is not starting either!! so notw I have nothing..

I would settle to just start over and import all my series and movies but even that is not popssible.. I can not connect the new server to my account..

So i am totally lost..

any one with tips/tricks ?

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Which guide did you follow?

DSM 6 or 7?

How did you transfer the files?

How skilled are you at Linux / SSH ?

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as my current plex is on DSM6 I followed that guide.

I tarred the Plex Media Server folderand copied it to my ubuntu machine where I untarred it.

My linux skills are pretty damn good

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Well I got a step further…

I accessed the new installtion via fqdn. That worked (as far as displaying the webinterface) but could not do anything with it. Now accessing the new plex on IP based and I could enter the setup..

Turns out (from logging) the dns I was using was not recognized to be a local one. (bit strange as it is a local one)

So now I have my library setup and I guess I need to manualy set all my media as watched…

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looking at my library (while it is still importing) it seems it gotten some flags of watch. maybe this is store in my account ?

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  1. FQDNs are not accepted when claiming a server (PMS is overly secure)
    You need the IP only as you found out

  2. I’m presuming you did the chown -R plex:plex /var/lib/plexmediaserver

  3. Please don’t be so quick to create new server instances. I just cleaned up your previous attempt. We could have kept it.

I’m not understanding this.

Is the server importing your media now and loading metadata ?

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Yes,

New server has imported my media.

But I noticed that maybe 40% was flagged as watched. I did not mind because I have watch around 98% of my library. but I was somewhat surprised to see the watched flag.

Still have a playback issue :slight_smile: but that may be network related..

Will continue tomorrow