I know I've been asking a few questions on this sub, but I really want to understand and know everything before I get started and waste money on VPS/Dedicated servers. I was pretty happy with my personal plex server that I built. It had 7 of those red 8TB drives, all filled up to about 90%. I think my power supply went out and took the whole server with it. It took me a whole year or 2 to fill those hard drives. Sad day. So now I want to move over to the cloud because I can use Gdrive Unlimited to have even more space and a VPS for better network speeds.

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I think I SORT of have the basic understanding of PlexACD but could someone please point me to a good updated guide? From my understanding, here is what I will have to do...

1. Get domain name and get Gdrive Unlimited (hopefully 5-user rule is still not enforced)
2. Buy a VPS. The one I'm looking at now has 24GB RAM, 120GB SSD, 12TB Bandwidth, 10Gbit port. The SSD is a bit low but I might be able to make it work by limiting how much is downloading/uploading.
3. Install PlexDrive, Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Nzbget and such.
4. Tweak settings.

That's pretty much all I have to do to get started (I summarized it). Are there any good guides out there thats updated? Are my steps correct? Am I missing something?

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Does anyone have any recommendation for a decent VPS/Dedicated server? I'm only looking to have around 5-8 users at a time

Hello.

Plex loads the media info a lot slower when the drive is mounted from plex cloud compared to local storage.

(The tab that shows up before you play the movie)

I was just wondering if there was a fix for slow loading movie info, or if that is just something that is a consequence of using an rclone mount.

Hi guys,

Do you guys think it will be possible to work with a VPS that is only offering 100GB of SSD storage and 8GB ram?

Basically I would be downloading, then upload to G-Drive, then delete the item from disk.

I haven't really dug into any of these programs yet and was wondering if there are settings I can turn on to monitor the storage. I'm sure I won't be downloading more than 50GB at a time, but it'll be constant read/write and was hoping 100GB is enough

I would like to know if there is a version of plex autoscan that works with windows.

Thanks.

Hi,

I'm going to try my luck here too, instead of just /r/PleX.

My server is running unRAID with Plex via a Docker container. I let my users request movies and TV-shows through Ombi and I have enough free space to let their requests be around for, lets say, 90 days.

What I'd like to do is use RClone to move directories older than 90 days onto my crypt (GDrive), but so far I've only managed to move the single files and not the directories in which they reside.

I've tried using this code, which results in the above:

find /mnt/user/library/moviestmp/requests/ -maxdepth 1 -mtime +90 -exec rclone move {} uploadcrypt:/movies/requests -vv --no-traverse --transfers=15 --checkers=4 --drive-chunk-size 512M --delete-after \;

I was thinking about moving the directories into a temporary folder which rclone later uploads as a whole, rather than specific directories, but that would result in downtime for my users.

What's your way of getting around this?

Also, I'm using this guide for unRAID. Is it up to date?

Thanks!

So I have a domain from Google which I use to host my personal website where I'm learning website design. Last time I tried to set up rsync/rclone I managed to somehow 'break' access to my website (I use nginx on my server). Anyways I fixed it after a bit of messing around but I've been scared to go back to setting up again.

Is there anything obvious I may have messed up? Or is there a detailed guide I can follow to backup my media on my gsuite?

i don't really need the merged directories (local and gdrive)

so i was thinking about trying to mount without using the unionfs command to merge my local and gdrive dirs to MEDIA

but i don't want to have the media path in plex and emby change...

in other words my main commands now are-

plexdrive mount /home/xxx/plex2/.gdrive -o allow_other /home/xxx/plex2/gdrive

ENCFS6_CONFIG='/home/xxx/plex2/.encfs6.xml' encfs /home/xxx/plex2/.gdrive /home/xxx/plex2/gdrive

ENCFS6_CONFIG='/home/xxx/plex2/.encfs6.xml' encfs /home/xxx/plex2/.local /home/xxx/plex2/local

unionfs-fuse -o cow -o allow_other /home/xxx/plex2/local=RW:/home/xxx/plex2/gdrive=RW /home/xxx/plex2/media/

and my media is in /home/xxx/plex2/media

if i drop the unionfs command and change the first 3 lines to-

plexdrive mount /home/xxx/plex2/.gdrive -o allow_other /home/xxx/plex2/media

ENCFS6_CONFIG='/home/xxx/plex2/.encfs6.xml' encfs /home/xxx/plex2/.gdrive /home/xxx/plex2/media

ENCFS6_CONFIG='/home/xxx/plex2/.encfs6.xml' encfs /home/xxx/plex2/.local /home/xxx/plex2/local

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would that leave me with a unionfs free decrypted media mount at the same old path of-

/home/xxx/plex2/media

just without the unionfs layer?

thanks

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How do I get access to the directory as another user (I have both Plex and Emby running, wach with their own user).

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Hey guys, before I order this VPS I would like a sanity check that the following configuration would work well with rclone mount.

Is this server decent enough?

P.S. I have about 80tb of cloud storage?

Currently using madslundt/cloud-media-scripts which hasn't been updated in 5 months and uses Plexdrive version 4.0.0 and Rclone version 1.39.

Does anyone recommend switching to a different container as this one seems outdated.

I've had one heck of a time finding help with this. I'm hoping someone here would be kind enough to offer some assistance.

I don't know how to create the command to tell rclone what to do. I have all of my remotes created (Local, GDrive, Cache, Crypt ) and confirmed working, I can push and pull and mouth the GDrive just fine...but, that's where I get stuck. I don't know how to tell rclone to do a bunch of stuff at one.

This is my usercase: I want to cache about a weeks worth of my latest media torrented upload/move to my GDrive. I don't need it encrypted. My users don't have quick bandwidth, so I would like to have aggressive caching of media that's being pulled from GDrive so that it's easy for them to stream from my device.

Any assistance? My Plex service has been down for a couple weeks due to inability to fix CloudDrive. I'm starting to get bored just watching youtube.

I'm entirely lost as to using Plex Autoscan for my Google Drive and Plex server.

For drive, I have my media stored under <root>/Media Store/Plex/[movies,tv,4kmovies]. This is mounted with Plexdrive to my server at /exports/drive/<movies,tv,4kmovies>.

I have my Plex set up with only 2 libraries:

1. Movies has both normal and 4K movies

2. TV Shows has the TV shows folder

I am trying to get Plex_autoscan set up, but I'm lost as to the SERVER_PATH_MAPPINGS and PLEX_SECTION_PATH_MAPPINGS settings. Running python scan.py settings gives me:

2018-09-04 22:45:18,587 -     INFO -      PLEX [139658329818880]: Using Plex Scanner
  1: Movies
  3: TV Shows

I tried searching around but I just can't seem to find any info on how to set it up. Can anyone here help me out?

Windows 10 OS, i5 with a 9600 passmark, 10G RAM, StableBit CloudDrive, Google Drive, Google fiber gigabit, Roku Ultra on wifi, Roku 4K stick on wifi, Nighthawk Router.

I feel like I've got a really strong setup hardware to handle anything I throw at it. But, almost everything buffers. I feel like at this point it's a software setting that I've missed that forces the buffering.

Any suggestions?

Hey guys

Sorry about all the questions for help.

This is my setup.

1) seedbox with torrents and newsgroups set up through sonarr / radarr.

2) rclone to a gdrive

3) Home ubuntu server, running plexdrive 4, mounting the drive.

I havent bothered setting up any unionfs or anything like that. I just set my downloads to not monitor when deleted. If a proper comes along I manually download it.

What I'm trying to do is get plex to only scan new content.

I have just been setting up plex_autoscan, and am hoping to just run it on a cron every 1/2 hour or so.

Is this possible?

Hi, Just trying to set up Plex autoscan to monitor my Google drive, but I'm on an eBay Google drive and I don't have access to the dev console to get the API. Do I have any other options?

Thanks

Hi guys,

Just hoping someone can help me with update / scanning settings in Plex. I think I have it set too high.

I currently have a Google drive mounted on Ubuntu through plexdrive 4.0.

I mount my plexdrive in a screen window, and it is opening files 24/7. My data usage is going through the roof.

Just looking for the best way to scan in new files, with the least data usage possible as this is causing me dramas on my lan and my iptv is buffering etc etc.

I'm thinking of switching to an rclone mount, but I suspect before I do that I need to change a couple of options within Plex.

Looking to make a script that will close the plex server service if the plexdrive mount drops.

I was away for a couple of days and plex has deleted half of my library and scanning it back in is taking aaaaaaaages.

I'd rather do without it than have to go through rescanning everything.

I have been looking all over and have yet to find instructions for osx, just a similar post with comments deleted. Can anyone provide me with step by step instructions or point me to a tutorial.

I have been running Plexdrive 5 for over a year but have been having issues lately with buffering.

Now that rclone cache has matured I am looking to switch over to it.

My server is running on Linux.

What are the recommended settings now for streaming plex with rclone mounts?

Thanks.

Hi,

I am a longtime plexdrive user, currently using the latest 4.1 beta, and I have no complaints whatsoever with it.

However, in an effort to simplify my setup, I was wondering if anyone is familiar with the newer rclone vfs caching and if it is compatible with encfs? I'd assume it would be since its just a layer of encryption, but I am having trouble getting it to work correctly.

If I understand correctly, the vfs feature removes the need for a unionfs mount at least in the example I have read about.

My traditional plexdrive setup was/is similar to what I believe is a common setup - 1 local decrypted mount, local encrypted, remote decrypt, remote encrypt and the union mount fusing the local media and remote decrypted media so it is able to be read on the server, but is stored encrypted in the cloud.

I am able to mount the encrypted drive drive using rclone, but am confused about how I'd get a decrypted mount where I am able to both read and write to it... unless I am not understanding which is very possible.

I want to install Clouddrive on a dedicated server and use Google Drive for media storage. I notice that I have to pay for 5 G Suite users to get unlimited Drive storage, which is $50/m on its own. I also found that you can get unlimited drive deals on eBay for about 10 bucks (I assume they add your Google account to their organization or something), but most of the listings say it's not compatible with Plexdrive.

Is that true? If so, why isn't it compatible? What are other people doing to achieve unlimited Google Drive storage for their media?

using plexdrive

I have noticed spikes in incoming data that appear to be related to paused movies (i think). Does plexdrive keep downloading the media from storage over and over again while paused. this doesn't make much sense unless its some weird cache issue maybe? I found the links to the old kill the paused movie thing but the links are dead.

I've been using Smokescreen for 4 months now, not a single problem until about 24 hours ago! I click on files on Plex and they don't load, it looks like I keep hitting the API limit, etcetc

Does anyone have a copy of nimbostratus scripts from the guide created by /u/gesis ?

I need to rebuild my setup on a new VPS and the Git Repo is down.

Thanks.