I have a Synology (DS412+), I want to replace three of the total four disks.
Therefor I need to rebuild the volume and want to use BTRFS instead of ext4 but when I do that I will lose all my plex metadata…
Is there an easy way to backup all metadata and restore it to my new BTRFS volume?
- Make the Plex share visible (Control Panel - Shared Folders - Edit the Plex share
- Give your username R/W
- Open in File Station,
- Right-Click
Library. - 'Compress to Library.zip`
- Wait for what feels like eternity
- Save the resultant ZIP somewhere off the machine
Restoration.
- Reverse the above
- After restoration, Right click 'Library
-> Properties -> and assign ownership toplex:users` → apply to files, folders, and sub-folders.
On the DS-412, the additional overhead of BTRFS is likely not going to be a good experience.
If you already have software RAID (e.g. RAID 5 or 6), there is nothing to be gained by adding more RAID in the filesystem. If you have JBOD, then BTRFS is better than nothing.
Hi,
Thanks, managed to get a backup
Have reinstalled NAS and Plex and after restore and copying the data back (movies etc) it still needs to download the metadata from internet or even some can’t find any …
Would have thought that it will get it from the metadata folder in the library folder … any ideas?
If a ZIP was taken of Library , it got all the metadata. Metadata is stored in Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata
The only reason it would need to download new is if the shares are named differently (these would appear as new media items and the old share names would no longer be valid)
Hi,
I have the same shares, copied everything over … strange …
after you recreated the volume, did you ‘Restore’ your configuration backup to recreate all the directories and restore permissions as they were?
Yes I did …
