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Plex server migration to docker based? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by DrTeeth to c/selfhosted

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I have an Intel NUC running plex media server on ubuntu headless server. It's running beautifully, and barely uses the nuc's resources. The videos are stored on a synology ds923+ NAS.

I'm thinking of adding a couple of new services to the NUC and would like to move to a dockerised setup. This would involve moving the plexmediaserver into a docker.

Is there a good way to do this without having to recreate and rescan all the plex video libraries?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you're planning to mount the data directories on the host for your docker setup it should be relatively straight forward I think, docker volumes a little less so. Thinking through it, you'll need to run the container first time with the volumes mounted wherever you like so the container will populate the host mounted data directory with the folder structure, initial database, config file(s) logs, cache, etc. Then it should be as simple as backing up the initial data files just in case, swapping in a copy of the database you've got already got running, the config .xml? I believe, the cache directory, and the logs if you'd like. It's been a while since I've had Plex deployed so I could certainly be missing something though.

Edit: create -> run