Moving to a snap install

Plex Media Server
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My plex server is on some old hardware and I want to move it to a new machine. The library itself is on a NAS and mounted. However the old install is a standard ubuntu install and I would like to move to a snap install on the new machine.

The problem with the snap install, of course, is that it can only see files in home or under /media and my original install had the NAS folder mounted at the root level (/plexlibrary).

So, my “plan” is to get the snap install up on the new machine and mount my library under /media/plexlibrary. I’ll copy the database from the original install but will modify the paths per this thread this thread.

At that point, I think the new server should come up with all the history and metadata intact.

Are there any “gotchas” in that plan anyone can think of? For that matter, are there any major warnings/concerns/limitations with using a snap install?

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Snap is great if you just want to try out an app but for something with a lot of data/growth (Plex) it adds a level of complexity when you have to work inside the container. You also loose access to hardware like USB tuners and some gpu transcoding.

The standard .deb install is much easier to support or you could go with Docker if you truly want a container with access to the file system.

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Wow - so this is fascinating! I hadn’t even considered anything like that! I don’t have any driving desire to go with a container other than convenience and it just sort of shows up in the ubuntu software catalog.

Is there any sort of “list”, if you will, of shortcomings with using the snap install?

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