I need to back up some old stuff, but my upload is abysmal. Could I take my HDD elsewhere that has a better one, setup plex on a new machine pointed to my ACD and have it runs a Cloud Sync real quick and still access that media via a different server logged in under my same Plex username?
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I always found Plex Cloud Sync very unreliable (at least with ACD)
and fwiw Amazon is no longer available as a option if you try to link a new provider
You would probably be better off looking at rclone or acd_cli. Both of which you can use to transfer files to ACD and mount your ACD on your Plex Media Server Machine (At least on Linux and Mac, not sure about Windows as I don’t use it)
@blim5001 said:
I always found Plex Cloud Sync very unreliable (at least with ACD)
and fwiw Amazon is no longer available as a option if you try to link a new providerYou would probably be better off looking at rclone or acd_cli. Both of which you can use to transfer files to ACD and mount your ACD on your Plex Media Server Machine (At least on Linux and Mac, not sure about Windows as I don’t use it)
I already have ACD linked to my Cloud Sync, and AFAIK ACD is just no longer available for Plex Cloud not Cloud Sync.
As far as mounting ACD as a mapped drive using acd_cli, that would work better to keep it all under one server and I’ll look into it.
But, none of this really answers the question here. Does uploading items to ACD via a separate machine, with both machines being logged into the same Plex and ACD accounts, allow the other machine to read the media?
I already have ACD linked to my Cloud Sync, and AFAIK ACD is just no longer available for Plex Cloud not Cloud Sync.
But I think what your asking should work in theory, as the cloud sync server is tied to your account rather than a specific server. It appears a separate server in server drop down list.
But in saying that, I am trying to cloud sync a couple of files from 2 different servers, logged into the same Plex account and they are both stuck on waiting to upload. (i’ll leave them for a while and see if they eventually upload and report back)
Yes and No. When you create a Cloud Sync job, that info is saved in the Plex database on that machine. No other PMS will see that info even if using the same Amazon account. However, if you copy that PMS’s configuration and database and copy it to another machine, so it becomes a copy of the PMS you uploaded the files from, then they will show up.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
Yes and No. When you create a Cloud Sync job, that info is saved in the Plex database on that machine. No other PMS will see that info even if using the same Amazon account. However, if you copy that PMS’s configuration and database and copy it to another machine, so it becomes a copy of the PMS you uploaded the files from, then they will show up.
Thank you.
Any way to cut out the Cloud Sync config from the new machine to put in the old one? 
Well here’s my results from my tests…
I have a few Plex servers., so I set a cloud sync job running on 2 servers (Both logged in with my Plex account):
server 1 (VPS in Italy)
server 2 (Dedicated Server in Germany)
Once the Cloud Sync jobs were completed (which did take a while) I can then go to the “Cloud Sync” option from my server drop down list and the files upload from Both servers are available in the “Cloud Sync” section.
Of course you need to access each individual Plex server if you want to remove specific synced items.
But they are both available for playback in “Cloud Sync” and I have not duplicated any databases.
@blim5001 said:
Well here’s my results from my tests…I have a few Plex servers., so I set a cloud sync job running on 2 servers (Both logged in with my Plex account):
server 1 (VPS in Italy)
server 2 (Dedicated Server in Germany)Once the Cloud Sync jobs were completed (which did take a while) I can then go to the “Cloud Sync” option from my server drop down list and the files upload from Both servers are available in the “Cloud Sync” section.
Of course you need to access each individual Plex server if you want to remove specific synced items.
But they are both available for playback in “Cloud Sync” and I have not duplicated any databases.
This is interesting, and fantastic news. Thank you for your time that you took to test this out. 
