ross-jm / plexmig

PlexMig is a tool designed to simplify the migration or installation process of Plex Media Server.

PlexMig

Purpose 🤔

I've used Plex for years and have installed it on Windows, Ubuntu, Rocky, and even Docker. One day, I thought, what if I just made a script to install it whenever I needed to? Thus, the idea of PlexMig was born. I knew that it needed to be installed on any major OS that Plex supports without any weird magic config needed. The only drawback I saw at first was that if you take a look at Plex's download page, it's all done with either a .deb or .rpm. I have nothing against using them, but it did not seem feasible for any time any updated happen me changing links out. I did a quick search and found instructions on how to add via repos. From there I created the functions and added the extra steps to install plex and BOOM Job done.

TL;DR

I created this script to practing some coding and to make a fun Project to help myself and others.

Features

• Installation: Streamlined installation process for setting up Plex Media Server on a new system.
• Migration: Easily migrate your Plex Media Server settings to a new server.

Insttructions

• Clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/ross-jm/PlexMig.git

• Make the script executable.

   cd PlexMig
   chmod +x PlexMig/*

• Run the script.

./PlexMig.sh

• Follow The Pompts.
  • It's choice based.

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Things to Know

• For the migration part of the script you will need to configure your system to be able to talk to each other. I did the same when using this script.
• CentOS is not supported since it is EOL. Try Rocky Linux or Alma Linux. It's supported in this script.