Removing Plex plugin also removes Jail w/ Media? Oops.

[Nasarus]

So I just started playing with this recently, so not too big of a deal - but going forward I'd like to learn from this mistake.

I installed Plex and had everything running smoothly. After upgrading FreeNAS Plex stopped working, so I figured I'd just remove it and re-install it (thinking this would only remove the plugin).

Wrong - Jail w/ media removed as well...

So... as a matter of debrief - what went wrong here and how can I setup protection that will prevent an inadvertent (or needed) uninstall of the Plex plugin from killing the Media as well?

Many thanks for everything - this is really great!

 

[danb35]

The media shouldn't have been stored in the jail. It should have been stored in a dataset on your pool that was added to your dataset as storage. See http://doc.freenas.org/9.10/jails.html#add-storage.

 

[Nasarus]

Many thanks - during my second iteration (still a learning iteration) I've created a folder in the volume (outside of the jail) which I can access via a share or sftp. I then wanted to setup a simple symlink into the jail from without but that doesn't appear to be possible - instead I used the GUI to add "Storage" (which appears to be similar to a symlink but I'm not sure how it's achieved under the hood) that is mounted within the jail to /mnt/Multimedia/ . I fear my permissions are a bit loose and will play more with the owner/group/ACL and search more for best practices regarding the same.

On a stand-alone Linux box I'm fairly comfortable with ACL but the extra element of the network confuses me a bit especially since I'll be using both Windows and Linux machines to access the stores.

Anywho, that's my little story :) Thank you for the link - I'll read it now and will undoubtedly find it quite useful.

 

[Crispin]

If you're redoing it the don't bother with the plugins. The break or go outdated to quickly.

To install plex manually -

1. Create new jail called Plex
2. In shell type jls and note the number of your jail.
3. Type jexec 1 (assuming 1 is your jail)
4. Type pkg upgrade -y
5. Type pkg update -y
6. Type pkg install plexmediaserver
7. You're done.

Follow the hints at the end of the plex install to finish.

I've been using FreeNAS for a few years now and never had longterm joy with the plugins.


HTH
C