Migration from One Synology to Another

[trinitync2014]

So I’ve been running Plex on my Synology NAS for several years now. It is starting to fail on me so I purchased a new Synology NAS to replace it. I am wondering if there is a way to migrate all my playlists and things over to the new Synology. I can copy the actual videos easily enough but I don’t want to start over with creating playlists and things.

[tom80H]

Steps should be mostly the same as described in the guide on how to migrate from another OS to Syno.

Synology FAQ - Questions, Answers, and How-To's

FAQ 26 - Migrate from another OS → DSM 7 Migrating from another PMS installaton to Synology DSM 7 requires a little bit of up-front work. The basic procedure is: Prepare the existing installation for copying Create a “Plex” shared folder on DSM which will be the base share for importing. Create the folders “Plex/Library/Application Support” Copy the “Plex Media Server” folder and contents into “Application Support” Manually set permissions of the Plex share, and all files in the shared fo…

[trinitync2014]

I found a somewhat easier way to get this done. I simply used the Synology Drive ShareSync app to syncronize the folders and files from the old Synology to the new. Once complete, I opened Plex on the new NAS and everything was there.