Create a share for Plex Library Directory

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Worked! Amazing! Thanks a lot!

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Hi all, thank you for this useful app. I recently did a backup of my Plex folder, with the Plex server turned off at the time, and got this error message:

ā€˜0 file(s) and 0 folder(s) are skipped because of their unsupported filename (or unsupported file size), and 47856 symbolic link(s) is skipped because symbolic link is not supported.ā€™

Is this something I should be worried about?

Thanks.

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I would be, and also need more details about your OS, since this do works nicely in both Suse and Windows

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Iā€™m doing this on QTS (updated to 4.4.2 today), controlled in Chrome on my windows PC. I have a backup harddrive connecting to my QNAP NAS where the QPKG is installed. The backup is done via Backup Station.

Have attached the backup log here:

RTRR-Job403.log (6.2 MB)

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How is this relevant to my qpkg?

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Backup Station uses the shared Plex folder that the qpkg helped create. Unless I am mistaken you can only choose a shared folder for backup in Backup Station. Hence why I am using your qpkg and then using Backup Station to backup from the folder it created.

Maybe I am going about this all wrong?

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From the logs, I would say the problem is not the source, but the target

[2020/05/13 18:06:59] # WARNING: Skip the "Dev1Partition2/NAS Backup/Plex/Plex Media Server/Metadata/TV Shows/d/3576ebdde078e4d7401d00d488cc0797f9cf05d.bundle/Contents/_combined/seasons/4/episodes/18/thumbs/com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb_7f544b56f2dd6c07fb8642f58153e3377099f13a" symbolic link which is not supported by the file system!

I suspect your external drive might be formated as NTFS, and not EXT4

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You are correct. I didnā€™t know this would cause problems?

Do you recommend formatting to EXT4 then?

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That should work, I would guess

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And do respond with the outcome, since this is community, so we share to the benefit for all :wink:

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Hi @dane22 and all, and thanks for the work and help you are providing.
While I havenā€™t used the qpkg in this thread I already have a share for my server files from my qnap.

My question is this - Is there an easy way, like a scheduled task, or script of some kind (keep in mind noobish linux abilities) - that provide a ā€œone click solutionā€ (or better yet, as i said, a no click, scheduled, solution for making this backup?

I guess itā€™ll have to check the server for activity, shut it down if there is none, zip up the files, start the server up again, and upload the zip to a gdrive or whatever.

Iā€™ve tried looking for something like this but no luck so far. Any chance someone here can point me in the right direction?

Thanks a bunch!

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QNAP BackupStation can be used for this

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@dane22: QNAP BackupStation would be in most cases now be HBS3, but itā€™s essentially the same

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Did I mention, that I hate the cloud, and as such, did mean BackupStation :wink:

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@Holger-Kuehn @dane22
Well, the cloud has itā€™s uses and I do think holding a backup of pms is a good use scenario. Regardless, thanks for the info, although I was unable to set it up to do things such as turn off the server before backup, or zip up the folder before backup, or keeping a set number of previous backups, and other more advanced options. This feels like something that someone must have written a script forā€¦

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