Migrate from Local Plex Server w/ Stablebit Clouddrive (GDrive)

Posted July 3rd, 2020 1397 0

Hi there,

I'm considering migrating my existing Plex Server to a seedbox, with media stored in Google Drive. Currently, I have Plex Server running locally on an Intel NUC, with all media stored in an encrypted Drive Pool on Google Drive. This is via StableBit CloudDrive/Pool.

My question is what my migration process would look like. What I'm hoping I can do is simply purchase the seedbox, install Plex Server, and point it at my existing media in Google Drive. Is that feasible given my existing configuration?

For context, I believe my low upload speeds (10/mbps) are causing my remote users issues with their ability to stream. Hopefully, moving the Plex Server into the cloud eliminates that.

Appreciate any insight! I'm a layman, so apologies if this is an obvious question.

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angoikon

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over 4 years

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Hello!
Yes this is feasible!
Just connect your Google drive into your seedbucket dashboard, provide the rclone encryption settings to the previously-encrypted folder (hint: you have to provide the obfuscated passwords, not the original ones), then proceed to installing Plex into your Google encrypted folder.
Once installation is finished, a new plex server will be created at your plex account that will be managed by you.

Also, a new "Plex" folder will be created inside that encrypted folder which in turn, will create TV, Movies, Music subfolders inside it. If you already use this directory structure without any other custom folders/libraries, then you don't have to do anything else - perhaps a manual scan for the first time, if that is not done automatically.
If however, your current content resides as siblings to the new "Plex" folder (or you have set some additional folders/libraries inside Plex folder), you will be needing to set your library paths at plex app accordingly. The path to Google drive encrypted folder at your plex app is found at '/mnt/remote/' and you can easily navigate via "BROWSE FOR MEDIA FOLDER" when managing your library inside plex.

You can find our guide regarding seedbucket encryption here, and a guide for Plex integration into Google here