can you copy/backup the plex database dir in ubuntu with plex running? just had another disaster where a drive was accidentally unmounted and did a scan : ( went back to a database backup rather than wait for hours for plex to re find/take the trash can icon away… alas days old its still gonna tak…

No. You cannot operate on anything in Plex with Plex running unless you’re doing it through the Plex GUI. What happened that made you resort to this ? the drive unmounted? PMS watches for that. Given you speak of hours to do things, I wonder if the tool I’ve written might help you . Firs…

plexdrive… which i love (still get twice the speed via compared to rclone mounts) used to crash and unmount like once every 6 or 7 months… but lately its done in like once every couple weeks : ) : ( i have a shortcut to check the drive is still mounted before i do a scan… but got lazy and was in a…

You can make a copy BUT , so you’re informed: Whatever PMS is doing, won’t be in the DB yet The DB has WAL & SHM files WAL = Write Ahead Lookup (write cache it uses for transactions) SHM = Shared memory mapping between PMS and SQLite (this is the voodoo) In majority of cases, If you …

yea i wouldnt care at all about missing a few pending things… : )

Then go ahead. Now you know what risks you take. For me: systemctl stop plexmediaserver cd "/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases" tar cf /path/to/backup/PMS-Backup-$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S").tar com.* systemctl start plexmediaser…

thanks for that… i’ll make that a macro in mobaxterm to use when the server is not being used : ) i manually cut and paste a command changing the date-time of the backup… like this- sudo cp -a /mnt/ramdisk/Databases /mnt/eight-one/Databases/march3-1pm i’m linux/command line semi illiterate, but …

2.7 GB WAL file tells me the 2.7 GB “DB” file was “Optimized” in PMS but the server has not yet been restarted the “WAL” are all the pending changes. They are ‘commit’ ed to the main DB as PMS closes. WAL → DB … this is done by SQLite3 ====================================== If you want …

[image] ChuckPa: #Define the dir name Dir="/mnt/eight-one/Databases/$(date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M")" # Create it mkdir -p "$Dir" # Copy the principle DB files. cp com.plexapp.plugins.library.db* com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db* "$Dir" don’t i need to enter the full path to the Databases d…

@jaquestati Look what I wrote: Dir="/mnt/eight-one/Databases/$(date "+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M")" # Create it mkdir -p "$Dir" # Copy the principle DB files. cp com.plexapp.plugins.library.db* com.plexapp.plugins.library.blobs.db* "$Dir" variable “Dir” is a full path mkdir -p “$Dir” makes that fu…

ha… sorry i’m such an idiot… i tried the above and get a path not found error… i’m confused as to where i put the actual directory my database is in… (its /mnt/ramdisk/Databases btw) assume i’m a complete idiot (not much of a stretch obviously : ) if my plex databases folder is at /mnt/ramdisk/Da…

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