Backing up Plex Media Server (PMS)

For those of you that have a Plex Server you know that a ton of data is held on the computer that hosts the server software. Thankfully, from what I have seen, you only need to backup two things:

1. Registry Key
2. Plex Media Server Folder

Excellent, but where are these located? 

The registry key is located at:

   HKCU\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server

The Plex Media Server folder is located at:

  

  %localappdata%\Plex Media Server

I created a simple batch file to copy the registry key and folder to a NAS device on my home network. 

Here is the batch file:

@echo off

reg export "HKCU\Software\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server" p:\plex.reg /y

"c:\Program Files\WinRAR\rar.exe" a -r "d:\pms\pms-%date:/=-% %time::=-%.zip" "%localappdata%\Plex Media Server"

robocopy d:\pms\ p:\ /E /R:1 /W:1

del d:\pms\*.* /q

I export the registry key and then zip the Plex Media Server folder to my hard drive and then copy it to the NAS device. I then delete the file from my local hard drive.

A few things to keep in mind:

1. The Plex Media Server folder can be pretty large. Mine was a little over 6GB.
2. The updates folder inside the Plex Media Server Folder can be quite large. Mine had over 2GB of files and they are safe to delete. 
3. Zipping the folder can take around 20-30 minutes. 

Once i created the batch file I created a Scheduled task to run every Sunday at midnight.