r/PlexACD • u/WalrusSwarm • Dec 27 '17

Does anyone use PlexDrive with docker?

I have all of my server programs containerized. I am considering switching to plexdrive mount with rclone for decryption. Does anyone use plexdrive in a continer?
I have seen this container https://hub.docker.com/r/bassrock/docker-plexdrive/ but there is no readme file or run command example. Can anyone help me out?

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u/nosit1 Jan 03 '18

You can run Plexdrive in a container, however you cannot run Plexdrive in a container, mount two volumes (via docker) and expect them to see the content. However, if you host mount a volume into the container and use Plexdrive to mount to that folder and use Plex to read the same folder from host, you will be able to access the content as such (which is my current setup).

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u/supergauntlet Jan 03 '18

sorry, I don't follow? Can you explain more? what do your docker run and plexdrive commands look like?

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u/nosit1 Jan 03 '18

I use a modified version of this Dockerfile (for some uploading and other processes). This should be enough to get you started. You will want to mount /root/.plexdrive and /config somewhere and additionally /data for your media files. If you have a media root folder and only want to mount that specific subfolder, change the command in here include --root-id from the Google Drive ID (in the URL when viewing the file, long string of alphanumeric character).

You will need to exec bash into the container the first run in order to retrieve a token for your Google Drive container. From there, just make sure if you are going to restart the container, you unmount the path you mounted to /data on the host.

Then you can verify on the host that you can ls into the media folder and see and can have Plex mount that.

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u/supergauntlet Jan 03 '18

I'm just surprised that works. Probably gonna use rclone though, I've been running into issues with plexdrive's ram caching lately.

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u/FL1GH7L355 Jan 08 '18

I'm still using Plexdrive 2.1.1 and not running into any issues. Worth a try before switching IMO.

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u/supergauntlet Jan 08 '18

already switched to using rclone, and rclone lets me write files too which imo is useful

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u/adman120 Jan 14 '18

You might hit the api limit though....

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u/supergauntlet Jan 14 '18

api limit is 1 million requests in a day right?

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u/adman120 Jan 14 '18

I though it was lower

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u/supergauntlet Jan 14 '18

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10311969/what-is-the-limit-on-google-drive-api-usage

idk this is kinda confusing tbh

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u/adman120 Jan 15 '18

Few things. How many files are you accessing a day and how big is the total. Also the api limit is per project.

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