Plex Backup

[bpogue99]

On my Ubuntu installation I use the recommended approach from @ChuckPa in this post

Database backup and restore

If I may augment Peter’s reply; Regarding making a backup of your PMS metadata, in Linux, the simplest and perfect backup you can make is sudo sh cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver tar cf /where/to/save/backup/Library.tar ./Library When complete, Library.tar will have the full backup image of your files. Should you later need to restore it., you only need to stop PMS and do the following sudo sh cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver rm -rf Library # remove anything which pre-exists tar xf /pat…

#on existing system
logout of Plex
sudo bash
cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver
tar cf /path/to/folder/PlexBackup.tar ./Library

#on new system
sudo bash
cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver
rm -rf Library
tar xf /path/to/folder/PlexBackup.tar
sudo chown -R plex:plex ./Library
sudo reboot