PMS Stopped working on Ubuntu Server upgrade from 18.0 to 20.04 LTS Upgrade

Plex Media Server
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There is no need to do all this the hard way.

  1. Backup & restore is best served by using tar
  2. Symbolic links are problematic in many ways;
  3. Putting Plex’s main metadata directory on a USB drive, mounted in /media by the automounter, is asking for trouble
  4. Experience has shown that moving PMS’s metadata on a persistent partition , such as /home is the best. Other internal HD’s, mounted with ‘exec’ option, are also viable.

Fundamental requirements are:

  1. Local file systems only - Network shares are not safe due to file locking requirements
  2. A linux-native file system formatting - xfs, btrfs, or ext4
    3, drive / partition mounted in /etc/fstab with exec privilege asserted.

Changing where PMS’ metadata is (moving from /var/lib/plexmediaesrver)

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