PMS as a service

[sa2000]

@SASSBS

I have switched from running PMS on a Raspberrypi to Windows 10, I am in the process of getting a new backup script written to take a weekly backup of the metadata.

I have it mostly written, though I am struggling to get the zip file to create, I think this is because of the PMS as a service running and PMS itself running.

Can anyone share the commands to get PMS as a service to shutdown Plex, then itself and then restart the service and plex?

I tried
Get-Service -DisplayName “PlexService” | Stop-Service #Stop Plex
Stop-Process -processname “Plex*” -force

but this never worked. Ideally if I could get the command that is sent when you use the tray icon for PMS as a service to stop Plex and Start it up it would be ideal. I tried reading the code on GitHub without success.

I posted an example of a batch file sometime back. I have noticed some obvious errors that must have crept in when the forums were migrated

Have a look and adapt it to suit your environment

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

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 Rem set myRARAreaDrive=C: set myRARArea=%LocalAppData%\Plex-Backups set myPlexLocalPath=C:\Users\Plex\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server if not exist "%LocalAppData%\Plex-…