ATTENTION: this is only to sync the files, not the metadata.

 

In each Plex, I have two libraries: Movies and Series TV

On Synology, each library includes two folders:

• Movies includes /volume1/plex/Movies and /volume1/plex/new Movies
• Series TV includes /volume1/plex/Series and /volume1/plex/new Series 

On Unraid, each library includes only one folder:

• Movies includes /mnt/user/Movies
• Series TV includes /mnt/user/Series

On Unraid, I have two shares Movies and Series to access respectively mnt/user/Movies and /mnt/user/Series.

On the Synology NAS, I have mounted the shares of the Unraid Server as CIFS Shared Folder:

• /<Unraid Server>/Movies on /volume1/mount/Movies
• /<Unraid Server>/Series on /volume1/mount/Series

Each time I have a new movie or serie, I copy it onto my Synology, respectively into /volume1/plex/new Movies or /volume1/plex/new Series.

All movies and series are first renamed using filebot. This is a guarantee that all are well uniquely identified with the title, year, resolution, season, episode, encoding, etc, … According to Plex best practices, each movie is in its own folder.

Once I have a few new media, I turn on my Unraid Server and launch the following script in a SSH console (using Putty) on the Synology:

#!/bin/bash

if grep -qs '/volume1/mount/Series ' /proc/mounts
then
rsync --ignore-existing -h -v -r -P -t /volume1/plex/New\ Series/ /volume1/mount/Series/
else
echo "Cannot sync new Series as Zeus is not mounted on /mount/Series"
fi

if grep -qs '/volume1/mount/Movies ' /proc/mounts
then
rsync --ignore-existing -h -v -r -P -t /volume1/plex/New\ Movies/ /volume1/mount/Movies/
else
echo "Cannot sync new Movies as Zeus is not mounted on /mount/Movies"
fi

Next, on Synology, I move all movies and series respectively from /volume1/plex/new Movies and /volume1/plex/new Series into /volume1/plex/Movies or /volume1/plex/Series ⁽*⁾. 

Than, to be sure I don’t have the same movie twice on the Unraid Server (with distinct encoding or resolution), I run this command in a SSH console on Unraid:

find /mnt/user/Movies -type f -iname '*.mkv' -printf '%h\n'|sort|uniq -c | awk '$1 > 1'^C

It does not work for the Series as each folder (season) contains obviously several episodes…

 

This is only syncing the files! There is no easy way to sync also the metadata between the two Plex.

But voilà….

 

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⁽*⁾ Doing so, the fine tunings done in Plex, when the movie was under </new Movie>, are not lost. Temporarily, the movie will appear as “deleted” in Plex. Above all, do not “Empty Trash” ! Soon (depending on how many movies you moved), it will be “available” again. I did test that trick explicitly:

1. Take a new movie:

2. Open it:

3. Check that path (here under, it is under /New Movies):

4. Edit some info for testing purpose (here under, the “Original Title”):

5. Change also the poster:

5. Using Windows Explorer or the File Station, move the folder of the movie into its new location. The movie will appear very soon as unavailable:

6. Open it:

7.  Wait… Soon it will become again available:

8. Check now the path (here under, it is now under /Movies):

9. As you can see, the chosen cover is still there. And editing the details, you would see that the original title is still “DEMO MOVE FOLDER within Plex”.

First, enable rsync on your Unraid Server. It is preinstalled but not running as a daemon.

Create a file /boot/custom/etc/rsyncd.conf with the following content:

uid             = root
gid             = root
use chroot      = no
max connections = 4
pid file        = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
timeout         = 600

[backups]
    path = /mnt/user/backups
    comment = Backups
    read only = FALSE

Here above:

• The name “backups” between brackets will be visible as “backup module” from the Synology. You can create several blocks like this one.
• The “path” (here /mnt/user/backups) must exist on your Unraid server (create this one as a shared folder, to be able to access the backup later from any PC)
• Notice: the folder /boot should exist. But you could possibly have to create the subfolders /custom/etc

 

Next, create a file /boot/custom/etc/rc.d/S20-init.rsyncd with the following content:

#!/bin/bash

if ! grep ^rsync /etc/inetd.conf > /dev/null ; then
cat <<-EOF >> /etc/inetd.conf
rsync   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  /usr/bin/rsync --daemon
EOF
read PID < /var/run/inetd.pid
kill -1 ${PID}
fi

cp /boot/custom/etc/rsyncd.conf /etc/rsyncd.conf

Finally, add the following line in the file /boot/config/go :

#!/bin/bash

bash /boot/custom/etc/rc.d/S20-init.rsyncd

 

Now, either reboot or execute: bash /boot/custom/etc/rc.d/S20-init.rsyncd

 

Go now on your Synology and open “Hyper Backup” to Create a new Data Backup Task:

Select rsync as Backup Destination:

And Create the backup Task with “rsync-compatible server” as Server Type:

In order to access the backup and retrieve files from a PC, use the application “Hyper Backup Explorer” from Synology and open the backup file .bkpi located under \\<YourServer>\backups\<Yourbackup>.bkp\