Transfer playlists from one server to another?

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I have not been able to find a solid enough answer to this yet.
I am going to be building a PMS on Ubuntu 22.04 for my brother. He is currently running PMS inside of a jail on TrueNAS Core(FreeBSD) and has several PlexAMP play lists he wants to move to the new Linux server. The TreuNAS box will still be operating as a NAS. The new Linux server’s storage will be mounting the shares from the TrueNAS box. So here are the questions;

  1. How to copy the playlists from one server instance to the other?
  2. Where are the playlists located?
  3. Are the playlists created on the TrueNAS core FreeBSD server compatible w/ a Linux server?
  4. Are there any other concerns I am missing??
    Thanks in advance…
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If the media paths are EXACTLY the same then you can make a tar.gz of Plex Media Server and all its internal data (including databases) to the new machine without fear

( You will need to change ownership of all those files to match that of the new installation )

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If you are going to do that, you better ensure that the files Preferences.xml, as well as /Cache/cert-v2.p12 are NOT included.
Because otherwise the two servers will look like clones to plex.tv, which might lead to them both become unclaimed.

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The storage will be coming from the TrueNAS pool so the file paths will be identical. Instead of making a tar.gz can the PlexMediaServer directory just be directly copied via a program like WinSCP??

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