Plex Server Plugin upgrade

[Magnus33]

That doesn't make sense i have near 16 Tb and i can rescan everything in hours.
Its quite a few hours but it doesn't take days to scan.

Certainly a pain in the butt but it shouldn't take that long to scan unless the media disorganized and judging from your setup i doubt it is.

 

[raidflex]

That doesn't make sense i have near 16 Tb and i can rescan everything in hours.
Its quite a few hours but it doesn't take days to scan.

Certainly a pain in the butt but it shouldn't take that long to scan unless the media disorganized and judging from your setup i doubt it is.

Just doing a scan will take less then 1 hour. But I let mine generate the media index files, this is what takes so long because it must run a full scan of every single episode/movies and this is over 3500 video files. Basically its as if I am trans-coding all the files.

 

[Magnus33]

Mine is set to index the files also and it shouldn't take that long to do so.

I can set it to do so and 12 to 16 hours later its complete which is a far cry from the days mark.
I got over 9800 in just tv show video files and this isn't even counting movies.

Something bottle necking the process for you since it just shouldn't be taking that long.
It may be your setup since mine is not setup with raid and therefore less physical drivers to go through (seems dangerous on the surface but there a whole other system in the basement backing this one up)
I had the parts so i figured a one to one drive backup was a good idea and freenas boxes are so easy to setup.:)

 

[Magnus33]

Mine is set to index the files also and it shouldn't take that long to do so.

I can set it to do so and 12 to 16 hours later its complete which is a far cry from the days mark.
I got over 9800 in just tv show video files and this isn't even counting movies.

Something bottle necking the process for you since it just shouldn't be taking that long.
It may be your setup since mine is not setup with raid and therefore less physical drivers to go through (seems dangerous on the surface but there a whole other system in the basement backing this one up)
I had the parts so i figured a one to one drive backup was a good idea and freenas boxes are so easy to setup.:)

Either way though a fixed plugin update option would be great since deleting and rescanning cause other headaches like messing with myplex setups.

 

[raidflex]

Mine is set to index the files also and it shouldn't take that long to do so.

I can set it to do so and 12 to 16 hours later its complete which is a far cry from the days mark.
I got over 9800 in just tv show video files and this isn't even counting movies.

Something bottle necking the process for you since it just shouldn't be taking that long.
It may be your setup since mine is not setup with raid and therefore less physical drivers to go through (seems dangerous on the surface but there a whole other system in the basement backing this one up)
I had the parts so i figured a one to one drive backup was a good idea and freenas boxes are so easy to setup.:)

It pegs the CPU 80%+ when it generates indexes. Most of my files are at least 2GB an episode and the movies are 20-30GB mkv's, so maybe you are using smaller file sizes and this is why.

If I disable the indexing then it completes very fast.

 

[Magnus33]

Scanning the easy part indexing the pain but what are we going to do.
If we were perfectionist to a degree we wouldn't be doing all this :)

 

[raidflex]

Scanning the easy part indexing the pain but what are we going to do.
If we were perfectionist to a degree we wouldn't be doing all this :)

This is true, and I don't need to have the latest version but I really want it :) . I don't mind backing up the database files and reinstalling the plugin. But I really don't want to cause any issue with myplex or my indexing.

 

[Magnus33]

Tell me about it...lol

We don't need it since its not huge update but resisting the temptation to play with new code sure isn't easy ;)

 

[cyberjock]

Now everyone sees why I don't use the plex plugin. Always fighting it to keep it up-to-date and without it trying to rebuild its indexes.

 

[Magnus33]

Now everyone sees why I don't use the plex plugin. Always fighting it to keep it up-to-date and without it trying to rebuild its indexes.

The plugin works fine its the upgrade process that broken.
When that's fixed it well basically be the same as running it on any desktop pc, unfortunately we aren't quite there yet :(

Which is why i have a backup server in standby on the main pc just in case.

 

[cyberjock]

To me, I consider the entirety of the experience with the plugin to begin the moment they click "install" for the plugin. From there, up to and including the quality of the plugin to perform its function(which has had hiccups), bugs in the plugin itself(which we've had 1 or 2 major security issues), and the ability to update along with how often the plugin is kept up to date. I don't even know how many threads and bug tickets have been made complaining about the plugin being out of date, nor how long it took to make the updated plugin available.

Just look at Opencloud. It's on 6.0 now, has been for more than 3 weeks, and the ticket was updated 3 weeks ago to a target version of "future". While I'm not bashing iX for their choices stuff being out of date does, in my book, decrease the quality of service appropriately. Especially when there's security fixes and features that you want to use that aren't available and are left waiting until some future date. Stuff set to "future" normally means "its not something that should be ignored, but its not on anyone's short term schedule yet".

For most people, each of those small parts has had various problems in and of themselves. So I don't consider the plugin a very good long-term service to use.

 

[raidflex]

This is a problem unfortunately. It would be nice if all the plugins had the ability to update like Sickbeard and Couchpotato but this is not the case. I think a week would be reasonable amount time for these plugins to be updated after the port has been available, of course this is a pipe dream.

 

[cyberjock]

I would like to add that I have heard through the grapevine that there is plans to have many of these plugins being put on a system that compiles automatically and makes the update available within 24 hours of an update being made to the program. Not sure when it will happen, but it may happen someday.

 

[raidflex]

I was able to upgrade the Plex plugin using the steps in this thread posted by Rick Johnson. All settings and content was retained and everything works properly.


http://forums.freenas.org/threads/new-plugin-available-plex-media-server.14826/page-5

 

[Wolfeman0101]

I was able to upgrade the Plex plugin using the steps in this thread posted by Rick Johnson. All settings and content was retained and everything works properly.


http://forums.freenas.org/threads/new-plugin-available-plex-media-server.14826/page-5

Yeah that's not really a good solution. I appreciate the work but why isn't the update in the GUI working?

 

[raidflex]

Yeah that's not really a good solution. I appreciate the work but why isn't the update in the GUI working?

It will be fixed at some point there is a bug ticket created. Unfortunately probably not until 9.2.1 at the earliest, this is why I did not want to wait. The newest update fixes a lot of issues, including one that ensures the server connects properly with the new myplex website.

 

[Wolfeman0101]

It will be fixed at some point there is a bug ticket created. Unfortunately probably not until 9.2.1 at the earliest, this is why I did not want to wait. The newest update fixes a lot of issues, including one that ensures the server connects properly with the new myplex website.

Yeah I'm doing the manual way, 14TB tarball and counting.

 

[majorgear]

I 2nd the backup warning. I just lost all of my customizations ( groups, ratings, watched status, etc ) because I updated without backing up. I though I was going to fix my plexapp login issue, but it's still there after the update.

I knew better, but sometimes I'm just too trusting. I guess it's time to come up with a backup solution for Plex database. ok, it's past time. Way past.

 

[Wolfeman0101]

I 2nd the backup warning. I just lost all of my customizations ( groups, ratings, watched status, etc ) because I updated without backing up. I though I was going to fix my plexapp login issue, but it's still there after the update.

I knew better, but sometimes I'm just too trusting. I guess it's time to come up with a backup solution for Plex database. ok, it's past time. Way past.

Tell me what you come up with. I want to back-up my entire jail (Plex and Sickbeard, SABnzbd, etc.) to an external drive or something off the FreeNAS box.

 

[raidflex]

I would think you could write a script to create a tarball of your DB and then after a new one is created delete the old. Then just set it up to run a cron task. It may not be elegant but should work.