so I plan to start from scratch, I want to prepare my server for backup my libraries
I do have a question for help moving the installer location as on Sunday I slapped things together so I can go to bed as I spent a lot of time on this server but that question will be at the end for organizing and making things easy, plus you may think I’m dumb doing this method XD so feel free to laugh
I want to know how can I properly backup this server for backup use when things go south, I have plex setup to backup its server data to one of my 4TB drives at this point, is there more files I have to keep backups of manually to make this work when I restore the server next time it goes down, last time this crashed I replaced the plex media server folder with my backup one and it did not seem to work in the appdata/local/Plex Media server. I would like a detailed full guide for beginners (plex backup for dummies)
I am running windows 10 Pro. 64 Bit
now the thing you may laugh at me and why did I do this for, I put plex software in my 4TB drive and it is my drive 2, I know for backup reasons you have to have your drive letters exact the way it was, I guess this was my fail point for backup, I want to make my D drive my first drive and my e drive as my second and keep them in order for the next time this happens, plex is on D (2nd drive) but when I go to switch the drives I almost forgot plex is on my second drive that i want to make as the E drive, I am sitting here thinking can I just cut and paste the installer folder to the D drive after changing the drive letters, hope I can if not how can I get the new install plex see my current library without having to get my friends to see the new added server, i already got them on this one.
Most important: your server needs to be shut down during backup, or you will end up with an incomplete/damaged copy of the primary database file.
This is very likely what made your previous attempt fail.
When you restore your server or transfer it to new hardware, you want to restore all the drive letters and folder names as they were on your old machine.
So, you better note down which hard drive has which drive letter assigned to it.
Once you have all the parts noted down and backed up, it is basically:
import the registry backup by double-clicking the .reg file
attach the media storage hard drives (or network shares).
Restoring their drive letters as they were.
restore the Plex data folder to a location of your choice (recommended for a larger media collection: a dedicated SSD)
Thanks i look into that, to answer my dumb question, i managed to get plex moved to another drive and marked it as D drive since this is my video 1 drive, so it seems to work with a small issue that seems to work its self out, when i relocate plex to the tv shows/movies it kept telling me changes are not saved but it seems like it is, kinda confused but if it works then it works, thank you i have no idea reg was a big part of this, i guess i got to get another PC and mess with it as if it was plex to get good practice on
plex has an option i see that you can tell it where you want your backups at, i have mine set on the root of my drive called plex backup, as for getting it over, i see i got to use a reg. tool to get the rest of the file structure to tell plex where everything was
