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Yep, everything that's attached to plex I backup (excluding media, that's done elsewhere). There are tens of thousands of tiny files which is why it takes so long, I do recommend taring it first. The archive must support symlinks which is why I chose tar.
I do tar it first (actually I tar my entire docker share), but it still takes longer than I would like.
Just the way my backup system works, All my docker containers go down while I'm backing them up, so it's a bit of a minor inconvenience (even though it only happens on off peak hours in the middle of the night)
Really not a big problem, just thought I'd check if you had a better solution.
Yeah, that's because every little file and image need to be stored, and there's tens of thousands of them. Nothing wrong with it, just will take time. I usually do my plex DB on a weekly cron in the middle of the night