*Proper* way to backup Plex data

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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So, the question is not new, really: what is the right way to back up Plex [presumaby device-independent] metadata, which could be potentially restored to a different type of device without much pain?

Usual advice is to back up /share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex Media Server (official documentation suggests the same). The problem is that this also contains some shared libraries (read, architecture-specific binaries), so the backup is not architecture-independent.

Is there a better way to separate metadata from local crud?

Thanks in advance.

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The technique is simple. This reply applies to you because of the installation path you have. Anyone can do this if they adjust the pathname appropriately.

  1. Create a shared folder and manually point it at /share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library
  2. Open the share in FileStation
  3. Stop PMS
  4. Create a ZIP of Plex Media Server (Compress-ZIP)
  5. Copy/ move the ZIP file someplace safe

You now have a Plex share which also will give you easy access to your log files should PMS ever give you trouble and need to manually retrieve them

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@lengdweller said:
The problem is that this also contains some shared libraries (read, architecture-specific binaries), so the backup is not architecture-independent.

Huh?

On neither of mine do we have any binaries, except for codecs, which size is minimal

@ChuckPA

Remember this:
http://forums.plex.tv/discussion/234641