Just curious - If I did switch to a non-Snap, I assume my installation would then be somewhere other than var/snap, correct? And I could move my existing database to that new location?
I will most likely stick with what I have though. I’ve actually had very few problems. I don’t have a NAS (I’m assuming you mean network attached storage, but could always be another Linux thing I don’t know). As for hardware transcoding… I can’t say I honestly know what that is really for, but I think that’s helpful when streaming large videos, right? 99.99% of my library is SD, and probably at a bitrate that most people would find unwatchable, based on what I read on other posts. But it works for me.
As for stopping the snap service, I found this
which looks, simple enough:
sudo snap services
sudo snap stop xxxxxxx
And then I assume a reboot would restart it. Or maybe “sudo snap start”
Now to the database itself. Whether I copy or make the tar.gz file… my “/var/snap/plexmediaserver/common/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/” folder is 160+ GB. I’ve got the space for this one time back up, but that’d be a large file to keep around if I wanted to keep it around (and maybe periodically re-create) as a back up. While I definitely want to save all the manual editing and preferences, I can only assume that a very large amount of that is video thumbnails. I want to have those, but wouldn’t mind if Plex had to re-create them later. Assuming that’s what causes a database to be that size, is there a folder I could exclude to leave them out? Or would it be easier to just turn them off and delete them from within Plex settings, and then turn them back on after the re-install?
