Migrating PMS from QNAP to Unraid - Any tips or guides?

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Hi there,

I’m in the last stages of decommissioning my old QNAP and moving everything over to a new Unraid server. All media is already copied and ready to go, so at this point I just need to move the Plex Media Server Install.

Is it as simple as I think it is? I believe the steps are as follows:

  1. Stop Plex on QNAP
  2. Install Plex on Unraid
  3. Stop Plex on Unraid
  4. Delete the Plex Appdata folder contents on Unraid
  5. Copy the PlexData folder from QNAP to Unraid Appdata
  6. Restart Plex on Unraid
  7. Log in and repoint media to new locations.

Is it that simple? Are there other considerations I should take into account before I begin?

Oh, also, is there something specific I need to do during installation on Unraid to setup hardware decoding via Intel QuickSync?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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Just in case anyone finds this in the future, this guide is of course perfect to follow:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/

As noted in the guide, make sure you set the Plex docker user as the owner of the Plex Media Server directory you copied over. Here’s the command (obviously replace the items in brackets with what’s in your setup):

sudo chown -R [UID]:[GID]100 [Plex Media Server Directory]

Bear in mind that after migration, Plex will want to re-detect all your intros and credits (if that’s a thing you have turned on for any libraries). Not a big deal, but just takes a little while.

In order to enable hardware transcoding with intel QuickSync, just add this line to the Extra Parameters field (only visible in Advanced View) when setting up the container:

--device=/dev/dri

Everything went seamlessly!

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