It’s been there for a while, not sure when it was added. It’s under settings → scheduled tasks. The arrs have something similar. I just have the default directories hostpath mounted to another location that gets pushed to google drive.
Can’t remember if I copied plex’s preferences.xml to the folder or not.
It dumps 2 files:
com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db-$DATE
com.plexapp.plugins.library.db-$DATE
Both seem to be compressed.
When I wrote the script, I was basing it on what I learned from Move an Install to Another System | Plex Support . I suppose I could optimize the script and reduce the downtime by skipping the DBs that are in use when I perform the backup, stops the docker container, backup the DBs, then start the docker container, but as it is, I can afford the downtime at 6-7 AM on a Sunday morning while everyone else is sleeping in… including a buddy of mine who also is allowed to use the server.
Weekly backups with a current week/previous week should be “good enough” for my needs. I’m just happy that the process is working again.
