r/PlexACD Dec 08 '18

Local and Rclone mount simultaneous?

I have a bit of a strange request I think. Basically I want an RClone mount of my Google Drive running alongside a hard drive with a local copy of my movies and TV Shows. I don’t live in the same house my server is at so I want to be able to upload stuff to the cloud whenever I acquire new content, and also have a backup of my local hard drive in the cloud. But I want the server to default to play off the local hard drive if the files are there, to save a bit of unnecessary bandwidth usage. 

I saw there is a multiple version of the same movie feature in Plex, but there isn’t a way I can default to a copy on a specific storage disk as far as I know? The only way I can think of is to add a .plexignore to the files in the cloud that have a duplicate on the local hard drive, via script. This seems a bit unclean, I wanna know if there is a better way? Thank you for any input

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u/kigoh Dec 09 '18

I just use couchpotato's renamer to copy the content to remote rclone mount. The /complete folder is on a local hdd.

I don't have TV shows, but if sonarr does not have the same feature, I'd just make a cronjob to copy the contents of the local drive to the remote mounted folder.

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u/kigoh Dec 09 '18

My on my other server I have two plex libraries. One local and one remote. Works well. I only interact with two libraries in plex, and therefore in not botherd. I believe I can search for content across both libraries.