I would like to mirror my Synology Server Plex content on a USB Drive to be able to take them with me and use on a laptop running the Windows Plex Server. Accessing the libraries locally from the USB drive works fine on the laptop but the Collections I created on the Synology server are not there. Can I also mirror them between the Synology and the USB drive?
That’s because libraries are made up of actual files. Playlists and collections just point to those files progrmatically. Why aren’t you just accessing the server remotely or downloading things to view offline? That’s how Plex is meant to work.
not uncommon to be where remote access is not reliable. I will be out of country and wanted to carry the entire collection with me so I wanted to grab the backup I am making on a USB drive and use it locally. I was unsure how Plex Collections were maintained and thought they may have been maintained in the filesystem so I expected them to be part of the backup. Is there a recommended way to create a mirror image of a Plex system? Is that an unusual request to have a reliable backup of my person collection?
“That’s how Plex is meant to work.” – I do not believe I am abusing the intent of Plex and trying to make it work in strange ways. I installed the server on my laptop and access it the same way I access my NAS.
That’s why the desktop app (Plex for Mac/Windows) has a download feature that’ll let you watch your media while „on the road“. There’s some discussions in this forum on how to configure the download to point to an external drive (though from what I remember, that involves some tinkering; by default downloads go to your system’s internal drives).
Cloning and replication of libraries across different servers is also widely discussed but brings the level of involved tinkering to a whole new level.
That’s what swills1 was referring with his point about it not being meant to be used that way… it’s certainly possible to get it to work but it’s not officially supported and there’s no guarantee your „strange ways“ won’t be colliding with future updates.
thank you - I will review however I am using a Synology NAS and a Windows Server.
wow - thank you
how are Plex backups supposed to be done? I currently USBCopy the media folders. I was hoping that there was a way to create a reliable backup. I am aware that I can download content however I have to figure out what I wish to see while away and have to get input from others I travel with and that is a hassle.
perhaps I am doing everything wrong. I currently have my media on a NAS, I use USB Copy to create a backup so as I rip content to the server, it is replicated. Without the replication, I would have a single point of failure.
As I’ve stated elsewhere:
- Now that DSM 7 is final release state (we had a lot breaking changes at the last second with -41882, 41888, and finally 41890 )
- I am now finishing the mechanism by which you can automate backups from the internal location to a shared folder.
I know this is a major pain and inconvenience. DSM 7 changed everything as I detailed
thanks for the information.
I will certainly pause jumping to DSM 7 and wait to see how things go with the PLEX update on DSM 7
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