You would backup that database folder we were talking about earlier, now that you have located it. But be aware it contains a very large number of files, so you want to have your server create a tar archive out of it (by running the tar command from a shell on the server). Then backup that one tar file, as otherwise it will take a very, very long time to copy all the files out.
I’m really sorry, just wanted to clarify. The databse folder is the entire “Plex Media Server” directory correct?
So for me that would be the folder containing the above^, cache, codecs, metadata, preferences.xml etc.
Yes.
I recently was forced to remake my Plex server because of an issue getting the jail itself to update properly. So I made a brand new jail, set up my mount points exactly the same as the old one, installed Plex to it, and then navigated to /mnt/jaildrive/iocage/jails/oldplexjail/root/usr/local/ and I made a TAR archive out of the plexdata-plexpass folder. I moved the plexdata-plexpass.tar file to the same location in the new jail, and expanded it to a folder of the same name. The result is I have now copied all the server info to the new jail. This is mostly covered in the Plex document on moving a server:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/
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Since you are using ZFS you can just use snapshots.
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