Using File Station, go to the Plex folder and navigate to Plex Media Server. NOTE: Volume# will be Volume1, Volume2, etc, depending on your configuration of storage pools/volumes Location of those files will depend on your system and you can check them all here, but for Synology users running this on bare metal the location is here: /Volume#/Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/ Keep in mind that the location of Plex files, in this case, are not media files but rather Plex application files and its metadata. Plex has stopped and now we can compress the data and ship it off to a spare drive, network location, or any other place that you can later on access and restore from. Stop Plex via Package center STEP 02a - compress the data and backup First, go into Package Center in your DSM on your NAS and stop Plex. Now we are ready to copy data and make a backup out of it. STEP 02 - Copy Server Data From the Source System Log into the Plex server that you are planning on migrating and go to Settings > Library and uncheck Empty trash automatically after every scan. I will just state some additional steps that I had to do to get this all going. NOTE: steps described here are identical to the ones linked in the KB article at the beginning. So to recap, I will be migrating an existing Plex installation ( version) from 918 NAS HDD configuration back to that same 918 NAS but in SSD configuration. Now even if I was not the only user this would not be something that I want, so here we are. Essentially you will configure a fresh server and everyone will start at day one. Why? Well because if you configure it as a fresh server, then all the metadata, covers, users, their 'on deck' status, etc, will be lost. The reason why I am writing this is to show that this is possible and that if you have a shared Plex server with dozen of users, setting that same NAS from scratch can be a bit of a pain. What I wanted to do was to get this NAS up and running as a new NAS (fresh install) but instead of HDDs (4x4TB), I want to run it with SSDs (2x500GB at the moment).

The NAS in question is DS918+ which was my main Plex server. Before I continue I would just like to say what I did exactly and why. In case you are wondering can it be done, yes it can! Checking Plex support site you will find detailed instructions on how to do this.įor this article, I will focus on the Synology NAS solution as a Plex server of choice.

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