Happy New Year!
I hope that you guys are doing well.
I’m having a bit of an issue with my Plex server (linuxserver) on unraid.
I moved my Plex build over from Windows to a dedicated unraid build a few months ago and everything went smoothly. I noticed a movie showing up with a duplicate and as “unavailable” a few months back and now have noticed another doing the same. I am unable to delete it and play the film at all. When I click on the movie title it gets stuck on refresh metadata and shows the film as unavailable. I believe this to be a database error/corruption. I ran the PlexDBRepair tool and was unable to repair it. What is the best solution to go about fixing this if at all possible? What information and/or files can I provide to help?
My apologies, yes I ran the tool some time ago and it confirmed that the database was corrupt. The tool was unable to fix it. I can maybe try to run it again.
If the database is beyond repair… did you enable the option for Plex to create regular backups of the database as part of the scheduled jobs?
You could attempt to restore a database backup.
When doing so, you might want to check how old those backups are. Plex will stop creating new backups once it detects database corruption… so depending how long this issue was building up, the backups might be a bit dated.
Yes, I’m looking through the backups and they are many months old now. Would a solution like SpaceInvader One suggested (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZDX7Gq7UFU) be something I should look into or should I just plan to restore it to one of the old backups made (around August 2024)?
No not yet. I’ll give it a try. I’m assuming based on the Git that once executed I stop PMS, toggle the ignore command, then automatic, then start, and then exit?
