Hello, i currently have a plex server hosted on my nvidia shield. Which can’t handle it anymore … it’s just too slow the nvidia shield crash down all the time. So i would like to host my server on a linux server but keep my libraries. How can i do that please ?
Thanks for your answers
I am not familiar with the Shield so please forgive if I am in error
Moving to Linux is easiest if you can get a tar or zip file of the Library directory containing your media. (ssh access?)
The general procedure is:
- Turn off all auto-updating and Empty Trash
- Stop the server
- Grab the backup (tar / zip) file image (via ssh?)
- install PMS on Linux and let run once. No need to initialize it.
- Stop PMS
- Open a root shell
- cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver
- Copy the tar/zip into /var/lib/plexmediaserver
- rename Library to Library.unused
- Untar / unzip in place, verify you see Library (which you copied from the Shield) and Library.unused
- chown -R plex:plex ./Library
- Start PMS
- Open the server in the browser
- Edit each library section, ADD the new folder locations (do not delete the old yet)
- Scan
- Observe everything showing up as duplicate (expected and normal)
- When complete, Edit the section again. REMOVE the old locations
- Scan again
- Observe the duplicate flag being cleared
- Empty Trash
- Clean Bundles
- Proceed to the next Library section and repeat the above Folder Editing sequence.
- When done, turn empty trash and other automatic setting back on.
- One final full scan , Empty Trash , Clean Bundles sequence.
- Erase the Shield server instance . It is no longer usable …
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