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?

  • LachlanUnchainedEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    It should be possible. Something like this:

    1.	Backup your Plex database located at /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/.
2.	Install Docker on your NUC.
3.	Pull the Plex Docker image using docker pull plexinc/pms-docker.
4.	Run the Plex Docker container, pointing it to your Plex database and media files. Example command:

    docker run
    -d
    –name plex
    –network=host
    -e PLEX_CLAIM=“<YOUR_PLEX_CLAIM>”
    -e ADVERTISE_IP=“http://<YOUR-SERVER-IP>:32400/”
    -v <PATH_TO_PLEX_DB>:/config
    -v <PATH_TO_MEDIA>:/data
    plexinc/pms-docker

    4.	Replace <YOUR_PLEX_CLAIM>, <YOUR-SERVER-IP>, <PATH_TO_PLEX_DB>, and <PATH_TO_MEDIA> accordingly.

    Make sure the Synology NAS is mounted on the host and passed as a volume to the Docker container. This should maintain your existing Plex libraries.