Hello,

 

I had unraid running on a small pc for Plex and all data had been on my old NAS.

 

Now I want to move unraid to a bigger Server with local HDDs.

 

For me the most interesting part is, what is the best way to move my Plex database / history?

 

Finally I will move all movies from the Nas.to the local HDDs, there it's clear that I have to configure the docker and so on with the new paths.

 

But, how can I transfer the Database? 

 

Thanks in advance and nice Sunday 

more info is need...

you can use the plugin appdata backup to make a backup of your dockers xml and configuration and some volumes needed to be saved.

wahat plex image?

I use linux IO docker tag linuxserver/plex
you will need to keep the same docker image and paths...

You need to find the plex template data options:

as this is the datbase and its entire configuration for your curent plex storage.



Plex does have a way to export its database, but not a good way to import the database...

https://support.plex.tv/articles/202485658-restore-a-database-backed-up-via-scheduled-tasks/

AS long as you get the config folder and not break the dockers internal paths to the host path of data.
You will be able to move plex form one machine to another. If cloneing this way, you will need another plex claim key... 2 keys cant be used at the same time. you can run into backend plex side server errors and can lose the server from plex side.

so you need to keep and move the appdata files, and you ned to keep the media how yo conenct them...
-IF not the database may delete custom edits you have made over the years when a file is not found...

as you can see i Have a /data path for my plex so when/ if moving my curent plex on the test unraid system to my production one.


I need to make sure the pathing and the data within these 2 folders are on the new system...

this bring me back to the appdata backup plugin..

we can use the appdata backup to make a tar backup of the plex database:

In my case I don't want /data as it is big to be backeuped adn zipped. over 7 TB of data i have for plex...

So i have the appdata plugin backup my docker its configuration and config key...

then i can copy the backup over to unraid and restore it via the app data plugin.

 

then use the add docker option at the unraid web ui to bring plex back point at the correct data paths...

 

Thank you, that looks good to me.

I will try it soon, at the moment a lot of data is moving from the old Nas to unraid. :)