RxLord Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Is it possible to transfer my Plex Metadata from my Plex Media Server on my computer running Windows 10 to the Plex Unraid docker? Quote Link to comment
GoudaK Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Sure is, all you need to do is transfer the meta data to the docker folder from the windows folder. It's the same folder structure. The transfer will take a very long time as it is thousands of little files... Mine too 34 hours. Quote Link to comment
RxLord Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 Do I transfer the whole "Plex Media Server" folder over? Quote Link to comment
DZMM Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 9 hours ago, RxLord said: Do I transfer the whole "Plex Media Server" folder over? Yes https://support.plex.tv/articles/202915258-where-is-the-plex-media-server-data-directory-located/ If you create the docker first you'll see where. 11 hours ago, GoudaK said: The transfer will take a very long time as it is thousands of little files... Mine too 34 hours. I've had to move my plex folder a few times recently. I agree, if you copy the whole folder in one go it takes forever. I don't know why, but this way allows me to do it in under an hour - could be faster but you have to stay at the keyboard and be alert for when each mini-transfer completes. The Media and Metadata folders are the painful ones to copy. What I do is: Manually create Media/localhost and Metadata/Albums, Metadata/Artists etc folders on the destination Then manually copy over a few subfolders at a time/in chunks e.g folders 0-3 and then 4-7 from the source Metadata/Albums, folders d-f from Media/localhost etc etc for the non Media and Metadata top-level folders I copy them all in go The transfers are much faster Quote Link to comment
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