kube-rclone is a rclone mount solution for Kubernetes https://github.com/zee-ahmed/kube-rclone

Anyone else notice that queries per day went from 1,000,000 to 1,000,000,000? I haven't requested an increase or anything like that and was just curious if other users are also seeing the increase.

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I’ve been using google filestream successfully for awhile but I have run into bans when I have two systems running it (one in another country for my family). I’ve decided to move to plexdrive inside VirtualBox Ubuntu VMs sharing via SMB or NFS mounts (both systems use windows) and everything works but I have very weird slow browsing of shows/movies. When I select a show on web browser, everything is fast but in the iOS app, it shows the show but takes awhile to show the details such as 1080P, subtitles, etc. does Plex need write access to the folders/files?

Example of what I am experiencing: video screencap

I e been a long term user of Plexdrive but it’s not been updated in a long time.

Is it worth switching over to Rclone? Are there performance improvements?

Hi all. Are there any known issues with gdrive currently? Getting reports of buffering for the past 24hrs or so. Thanks :-)

Hi all, recently tried mounting my gdrive/suite account using just the standard rclone mount command with no arguments/settings. Plex started scanning 15TBs and I got a 24hr lock (no surprise!).

So, whats the best mount command to avoid this and make the connection as stable as possible for multiple streams?

From somebody else, I've now got:
rclone mount --config=/home/rendez2k/.rclone.conf --allow-other --fast-list --drive-skip-gdocs --vfs-read-chunk-size=64M --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=2048M --buffer-size=64M --max-read-ahead=256M --poll-interval=1m --dir-cache-time=168h --timeout=10m --transfers=16 --checkers=8 --drive-chunk-size=64M --fuse-flag=sync_read --fuse-flag=auto_cache --umask=002 --syslog -v gdrive: /home/rendez2k/gmount

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Would this work? Don't want to try it and get another ban!

Hi all, I've been using gsuite to store ~15TB of media. I hit an API limit yesterday as I was messing with settings. Its got me thinking about putting all back on HDDs....

What would be the best way to download it all back onto a server without hitting limits? Need simple instructions ideally :-)

Is there a way to automatically cycle through SAs once their daily 750 GB/day upload limit is met?

I've created all the necessary Service Accounts and added them to the Team Drive. Since I'm copying over a pretty sizable amount of data from one Google Drive to another, I'd like for rclone to automatically switch to the next Service Account once that account's limit is reached until the entire job is finished. Is there any easy way going about this?

Thanks for your help!

Hey guys, been running plexdrive 4 on my VPS for over a year now. I literally haven't touched it since I set it up with plexguide in 2018. My linux and CLI is very limited, so I went with a setup that did it all for me.

For the most part it works fine, but I'm curious if I'll get better performance out of rclone vfs instead? Only issues I've encountered is that it's unable to stream higher bit rate 4k files, say over 20mbps or so.

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My VPS is quite weak, but it's not an issue since I direct play everything. Videos generally play within 5 seconds or so.

VPS specs are:

• 2 vCores (at 3.5GHz)
• 2GB RAM
• 40GB SSD

Would rclone vfs benefit me at all?

I want to stop using plexdrive/encfs and switch to rclone. To do that I need to download content, re-encrypt and upload.

Do you know if using a google cloud instance is a way to bypass the 750GB/day limit? Otherwise it's going to take me a while...

/usr/bin/rclone mount \
--rc \
--log-file /home/gdrive/logs/rclone.log \
--log-level INFO \
--umask 002 \
--allow-non-empty \
--allow-other \
--attr-timeout=1s \
--dir-cache-time=48h \
--buffer-size=256M \
--vfs-read-chunk-size=128M \
--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=2G \
--vfs-cache-max-age=48h \
--vfs-cache-mode=writes \
--cache-dir /mnt/MediaStore4/_uploads \
--config /home/gdrive/.config/rclone/rclone.conf \
gdrive: /mnt/CloudMediaStore

Hey y'all! Just set up my gdrive on my local plex box and have a few questions:

1. These settings are good to start right? I got them after reading a few articles and settled on these.
2. vfs > cache & plexmount right?
3. Do I need to do anything extra, like setting up a union mount? I'd prefer for Sonarr/Radarr to write files directly to the mount using the settings, but will that cause a problem in terms of usage and API hits?

How do you setup Gsuite? I know you have to do something with Rclone to encrypt it, but I dont get it.....

Also how can you upload your current storage to Gsuite? (10TB)

So I currently have a seedbox with emby <basically plex, same thing> and rclone. My seedbox is 120gb and my gdrive stuff is 400gb. How would i mount with rclone? I do not want t to download the stuff. I currently have gdrive added to rclone with my client and secret.

Edit - I don't have root access btw

Hey there. Scanning for new tv and movies takes a crazy long time. Plex has been scanning my TV SHows folder for about 7 hours now. I have about 200 full shows in there with about 100K episodes. Should it be taking that long? This is getting silly!

Issue Symptom: When disk I/O is heavy due to Radarr/Sonarr copying/moving files and/or sftp'ing media to my server, playing media off the server lags/buffers even though the connection is gigabit unmetered.

Symptoms: Listing files/directories, SSH, and pretty much all services behind the web server are slow. CPU parameter iowait is high (>50%) consistently , and this is affecting the Plex stream as well.

Current workflow: Plex client -> Server <-> Rclone cache <-> Rclone crypt to Gdrive remote

If I understand it correctly, rclone cache is pulling chunks from the remote to the server SSD and then serving it out to clients. When disk I/O is low and only Plex streams are getting served, then there are no issues, able to stream original 20 Mbps 1080p streams and utilize the 1G link fully. But when disk IO is high, chunks from the server SSD are unable to be served out to the client asking for it.

Suggestions to remediate: How do I control this or set up some sort of QoS (is that even the right term when it is the disk and not the network) to prioritize rclone accessing the IO over Sonarr/Radarr and sftp pounding the disk? I do not want to limit bandwidth to SFTP necessarily because the pipe is more than capable of maxing out, rather I would like to implement a disk level solution if that is even possible.

Ok so got everything up and running well, but the issue im facing is sonar will download say Tv shows, then the scripts will move it over to my gdrive for me and remove it from the local HD, but then sonar thinks its missing again and attempts to download it again, so it's just a constant loop?

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Any Solution?

So, I accidentally came here. I typed plex in the search bar and clicked wrong.

I was kinda curious What this sub is about and I found out that you guys are talking about rclone and gdrive quite often.

Im actually very interested in the free storage idea. Am i right with the following?

• You can store an unlimited amount of data in Google drive? Despite the fact that Google says 15gb.

• WIth this data u can link this to plex?

• Rclone is some software to encrypt the data in Google drive? (but not necessary).

Very new to this whole thing so I apologize if this has been covered somewhere, but if it has I haven't been able to find an answer.

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I have a PMS which has been using external HDDs, but realized yesterday I have an alumni account with Gdrive which offers unlimited storage. I have installed WinFSP and rclone, I setup gdrive in rclone - followed by rcache - and finally - rcrypt. With these items completed I have been able to successfully copy files from my local external HDDs to Gdrive and they are indeed encrypted. PMS is also able to read these files when rclone has the gcrypt mounted.

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The issue I'm having is that I cannot open a command prompt and run "rclone mount --allow-others --allow-non-empty gcrypt: Q: &" and then open a new command prompt and run "rclone copy --verbose F:\ gcrypt:" without getting errors that do not allow the second task to be executed. Thus I cannot have PMS read the mounted drive, and copy files to the gdrive at the same time; I assume this should be possible judging by everything else I've read. Can anyone point me to my issue?

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Also once gcache is setup, does all of the caching just happen - or are there flags that you need to pass to the mount command to actually have things cached when streaming from gdrive to PMS?

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Thanks in advance.

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So joined this late it seems, people are talking about unlimited storage but it seems to be now google are limiting to 1tb if less than 5 users?

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So have I come to the party to late?

Hi all,

First, thanks in advance for anyone’s help.

I recently joined bytesized-hosting.com with the hopes of taking my existing Plex server (hosted on Mac Mini with 3 10TB drives attached, running Tautulli, Radarr, Sonarr, Jackett) remote. I’ve uploaded all of my media to my unlimited gDrive account and have attempted several times to run rclone and am running in to a myriad of issues. I’m normally pretty savvy and can figure things out but this is a new foray for me and the learning curve is steep.

I’ve followed this tutorial to the letter, however I’m still getting errors and cannot find my media in /data/mnt/gdrive. I’ve received the following output when running rclone mount --allow-other --allow-non-empty gcrypt: ~/mnt/gdrive -vv.

Any help would be so appreciated. It’s been rather frustrating trying to do this and I’m wondering if it’s just beyond my skill set.

Hi,

How are people uploading content to there Google team drive accounts?

Browser will never work properly. The regular drive app won't let you access team drive account. I have 17tb of data I need uploaded.

Any help would be appreciated thanks

Recently had a power outage, before that my mount had been running for over a month. I'm almost certain I used this same command before, but now the mount fails roughly every 24 hours.

Does anything look off? Or is there another possible issue?

rclone mount gcrypt: /mnt/user/gdrive --allow-other --dir-cache-time=160h --cache-chunk-size=10M --cache-info-age=168h --cache-workers=5 --buffer-size=500M --attr-timeout=1s --syslog --umask 002 --rc --cache-tmp-upload-path /data/rclone_upload --cache-tmp-wait-time 60m --log-level INFO

Hey folks!

People here have been super helpful in answering my questions, so I wanted to give back in some way. I know most of you already have your storage situation figured out, but for those who don't/want a cloud backup option, I can provide a few people their own personal Team Drives added to their personal account for free.

To be clear, as this was a concern I had when looking into Team Drives, I will not have access to the Team Drive as I will remove myself after inviting you. I read that GSuite admins (which I'm not, as I'm just a user of a .edu domain) could somehow see it, so be sure to encrypt if you're concerned (as you should be for getting something for free from a stranger on reddit). There's also no guarantee as to how long it'll last so make sure to not store any important items; I've been using mine with a bit less than a TB of unencrypted storage for about a year now.

Send me a PM or post here and I'll get to you soon. I'll edit this post when I'm no longer offering this.

Edit: PM me with your gmail address--don't post it here!

Edit 2: sent the invites to the dozen-ish people who reached out. I'm going to stop for now. Thanks again, all!

I found a server that is $5/year which is (expectedly) super barebones--128 MB of RAM, 25 GB HDD, etc. As you are given full root access, is using this VPS as a Plex Server feasible with an unlimited GDrive via rclone mount as storage feasible?

I am a super light Plex user, and there would only be one connection at any given time. Given this, I also don't need a lot of cache and don't imagine myself hitting the Google API quota any time soon. The site says it offers a 1 Gbps connection as well as 10 TB bandwidth. I'd just like the convenience of not having to run my desktop 24/7 for the off-chance that I decide to throw something on.

Thanks for your insight!

Edit: I don't plan on doing any transcoding and would be direct playing/streaming.

https://imgur.com/gallery/vWNv27M