Plex cannot create library of >500,000 music files (>2TB)

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I use the following script to backup the data area - adapted from someone else’s posting in the forums

I use cjmurph’s PMS As A Service to run Plex Media Server - so there are references to that service. I do not restart the service at the end because i follow this weekly script with a reboot and that would restart the service

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set myRARAreaDrive=C:
set myRARArea=%LocalAppData%\Plex-Backups
set myPlexLocalPath=C:\Users\Plex\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server

if not exist "%LocalAppData%\Plex-Backups" mkdir "%LocalAppData%\Plex-Backups"

echo %date%,%time% - Creating LastBackup folder if it does not exist 
if not exist "%LocalAppData%\Plex-Backups\Lastbackup" mkdir "%LocalAppData%\Plex-Backups\Lastbackup"

%myRARAreaDrive%
cd %LocalAppData%\Plex-Backups

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rem backup last backup RAR file first (keep one older version)

echo %date%,%time% - Moving last backup files

move /Y *.rar %myRARArea%\Lastbackup\
move /Y *.log %myRARArea%\Lastbackup\

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echo %date%,%time% - Stopping PlexService Service
%windir%\system32
net stop PlexService

echo %date%,%time% - Force Terminate Plex processes
%windir%\system32	askkill /im "Plex Media Scanner.exe" /t /f > nul
%windir%\system32	askkill /im PlexScriptHost.exe /t /f > nul
%windir%\system32	askkill /im PlexDlnaServer.exe /t /f > nul
%windir%\system32	askkill /im "Plex Media Server.exe" /t /f > nul

echo %date%,%time% - Running WinRar for All Data in %MyPlexLocalPath%

"C:\Program Files\WinRAR\rar.exe" a -r -y -dh -v1000000 -inul -logf=rarList.log PlexLocalData.rar "%MyPlexLocalPath%\*.*"

Rem Not restarting Service - reboot will do it. %windir%\system32
net start PlexService

echo %date%,%time% - Exiting

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Should really also add kill for PlexNewTranscoder.exe and PlexTranscoder.exe processes as well

This version is a variation and covers an earlier version of PMS As A Service

Ought to add export of registry but have not done it because I run this in admin account which is different from the Plex Media Server windows account and I need to find out the Account SID in the registry before I can back it up. Would be easier probably just to backup the whole HKEY_USERS set