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Setup Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 3
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Requires:

  • at least 8GB class 10 SD card for fast reading/writing
  • large powered external USB hard drive to store media, powered USB hard drive is more reliable, and it doesn't put more work on RPI to provide it power
  • recommend to user Ethernet over wifi to connect RPI

#Setup Raspian There are many OS images available for RPI, but the easiest is NOOBS. Download NOOBS and and follow instruction to set it up on a SD Card

the default root user for Raspbian is pi, password is raspberry. t's recommended to change the root password, and create a sudoer, the instruction is here.

#Install PMS

#Mount External USB

#Copy movies with rsync

rsync  --progress --remove-source-files --exclude-from '/path/to/the//exclude-list.txt' "/path/to/the/source/folder/"  -avhe ssh pi@192.168.1.5:/path/to/destination/folder

Set up SSH key

#Copy movies to the cloud with rclone

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